Carnegie Estate (Cumberland Island, Ga.)

Dates:
Active 1800
Active 1901

Biographical notes:

Before there was a Carnegie Estate of Cumberland Island, the island was owned and settled by a century of white adventurers and planters. And before Thomas Morrison Carnegie, Sr., could purchase land and build Dungeness, he and his brother Andrew had to make their millions in Pittsburgh steel manufacturing. The following series covers the 19th century but concentrates on the decades immediately following the Civil War when Thomas, Sr., amassed a fortune, culminating in the acquisition of the southern portions of Cumberland Island, the erection of the new Dungeness mansion, and his sudden death in 1886.

From the description of Carnegie Estate early papers, 1800-1901 (bulk 1849-1889). (Georgia Department of Archives and History Library). WorldCat record id: 38475733

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Subjects:

  • Mineral industries
  • Real property

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Places:

  • Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania (as recorded)
  • Georgia--Cumberland Island (as recorded)