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Today, the Tybee Lighthouse is a popular tourist destination, having all of its support buildings on the 5-acre (20,000 m) site historically preserved. The current black-and-white tower markings are a reversion to its fourth day mark, first used in 1916. The Tybee Island Light Station is one of
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and demonstrated that masonry fortifications were obsolete. Recently, the City of Tybee Island has taken action to commemorate Tybee's historic significance in the Civil War. In 2005, the city obtained a federal grant to acquire two tracts of land where Union soldiers launched their attack against
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splits the island off from McQueens Island (the 2-mile (3 km) stretch between the main western shore of Tybee Island and Lazaretto Creek is mostly marshland). Tybee Creek flows along the south shore of Tybee Island and joins the Atlantic at the island's southeastern tip. Little Tybee Island,
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Officially renamed Savannah Beach in a publicity move in 1821, the city of Tybee Island reverted to its original name in 1978. The small island, which has long been a quiet beach getaway for Savannah residents, has become a popular vacation spot for tourists from outside the Savannah area. Tybee
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Every year since 1987, Tybee Island has had a Beach Bum parade, traditionally held in May the weekend before Memorial Day weekend. The parade route comes down Tybee's main road, Butler Avenue, and when parade floats come by onlookers have been known to shoot each other with water guns.
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Tybee Island has hot weather in summer, while in winter the weather is cool with winds. The temperature typically varies from 45 °F to 88 °F and is rarely below 33 °F or above 93 °F. The below table shows the monthly average temperatures:
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Tybee Island was formerly home to "Orange Crush," an annual beach party attracting thousands of students from historically Black colleges and universities. The 2019 event was canceled after an organizer was arrested, and future events were moved to
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threatened the first. Part of the third lighthouse at the site, built in 1773, still stands as the bottom 60 feet (18 m) of the present lighthouse. The top 94 feet (29 m) of the current lighthouse were added in 1867.
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which consists mostly of protected wetlands, lies across Tybee Creek to the southwest. The size of the sandy beach at the southern tip of Tybee Island varies considerably in response to tidal changes.
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of South Carolina led an invasion of Spanish Florida with an Indian army and a fleet of militia-manned ships. The invasion failed to take the capital of Florida,
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has made the island's northern tip the ideal location for a lighthouse since Georgia's early settlement period. First built in 1736, the lighthouse was made of
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who used the island to hide from those who pursued them. Pirates later used the island's inland waterways for a fresh water source. After the founding of
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On June 15, 2016, the Tybee city council voted 4–1 to withhold shark attack numbers where the attacks did not result in loss of life. According to the
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Tybee's violent crime rate is lower than Georgia's but its property crime rate is higher. The table below shows the rate of crime per 100,000 people.
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on its western shore. The interior consists of a maritime forest (the density of which has been reduced by development) and freshwater sloughs.
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missionary provinces. After another invasion of Spanish Florida by South Carolina in 1704, the Spanish retreated to St. Augustine and
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tribe likely inhabited the island in the years preceding the arrival of the first Spanish explorers in the area in the 16th century.
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in 1670, warfare increased between the English and their pirate allies and the Spanish and their Native American allies. In 1702,
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placed siege batteries along the north coast of Tybee Island that aided in their successful bombardment and capture of
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was completed, connecting Tybee Island via road with the mainland. The Tybrisa Pavilion became a popular stop for
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just north of Tybee Island, placing the island in a strategic location. To the west, the marsh-lined
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The U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb into the sea off Tybee Island due to an
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Fort Screven was first commissioned in 1898 and named for Brigadier General James Screven, a
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were depopulated, allowing the establishment of new English settlements such as the
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tybee Island, Georgia
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just a handful of 18th-century lighthouses still in operation in North America.
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Tybee Pirate Fest, which began in 2005, is typically held the weekend before
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In 1520, the Spanish laid claim to what is now Tybee Island and named it
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Fort Screven and the North Beach, viewed from the Tybee Lighthouse
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on April 10–11, 1862. This was the first significant use of
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The island is Georgia's easternmost point. The phrase "From
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Entrance to The Crab Shack, a popular spot on Tybee Island
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Island is home to the first of what eventually became the
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Tybee Island's strategic position near the mouth of the
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Lazaretto Marsh, off the western shore of Tybee Island
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There is also a public charter school on the island.
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Savannah Beach
City
Tybee Island Lighthouse
Flag of Tybee Island, Georgia

Location in Chatham County and the state of Georgia
Chatham County
Georgia
32°0′24″N 80°50′58″W / 32.00667°N 80.84944°W / 32.00667; -80.84944
Country
State
Georgia
County
Chatham
Time zone
UTC−5
Eastern (EST)
DST
UTC−4
ZIP Code
Area code
912
FIPS code
GNIS
cityoftybee.org
city
barrier island
Chatham County
Georgia
Savannah

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