The Railroad
In the early 1900s, logging became a profitable island investment. A barge brought materials to build a narrow-gauge railroad to the island. Railroad tracks went from the Mongin Creek to Freeport. Flatbed cars transported logs to Jimmy Lee’s Mongin Creek Landing. A canthook flipped logs into the water, then rafted together and towed by tugboat to Savannah or Darien, Georgia. After ten years, logging ended. If you look carefully, you can see the raised rail bed and drainage ditches to either side.
