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^[[ [ ]] GEORGIA ^[[ ] ]]
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WORMSLOE, 1735.

[[margin]] ^[[+]] [[red dot]] [[/margin]] [[underlined]] 60 [[/underlined]]. ^[[ ( ]] [[bracketed]] Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, lies the Isle of Hope, ^[[where]] Wormsloe, the oldest estate in Georgia, given as a grant to Noble Jones soon after the settlement of the colony by Oglethorpe was laid out about 1735. [[/bracketed]] ^[[ ) ]] 

^[[ ( ]] Noble Jones, on this almost tropical Paradise, where so many beautiful trees and shrubs grew spontaneously, first built a fort as a protection against the Indians. [[bracketed]] The walls were made of tabby, a compound of lime and shells; used throughout the south. [[/bracketed]]  The fort was called Wymberley and its picturesque remains, overgrown with vines, may still be seen. ^[[ ) ]] 

[[margin]] ^[[+]] [[red dot]] [[/margin]] [[underlined]] 61 [[/underlined]]. [[bracketed]] The first planting of which we have any record is that of mulberry trees. [[/bracketed]] These trees were planted as food for silk worms and Noble Jone's daughter tended the plantation. There is today still living one single tree of this grove where that picturesque character, Mary Jones, so often strolled as she cared for her curious charges.

The estate of Wormsloe has been for five generations in the same family, each generation in its own way rendering service to the country.

Judge Jones, the third in line from Noble Jones, the founder, set aside five acres of the island near the house for a park and garden. It was he who planted the live oaks, now hoary with age and draped in a mantle of Spanish moss, and also the oldest magnolia trees.