As one of Georgia’s Golden Isles, Spanish moss-covered Jekyll Island was once the stomping grounds for the country’s most powerful and elite, including the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Vanderbilts. The Jekyll Island Club served as the social club and resort in the pre-war days where visitors could hunt, ride horses and play golf.
It was here that the first transcontinental telephone call was made, memorialized in the photo above, by the president of AT&T to Alexander Graham Bell. The club was closed in the 1940s due to post-war financial concerns, but reopened as a National Historic Site and luxury hotel in 1985.
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