Seals, Georgia

Seals, Georgia

Seals is an unincorporated location in Camden County in the state of Georgia in the United States of America.cite web|title=Georgia Cities & Towns S ~ T|work=Georgia USGenWeb Archives|url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gatowns7.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27|year=1998] Its position is at coord|30|52|22|N|81|42|15|W at an elevation of 21 feet.cite web|title=Seals|work=PlacesNamed.com|url=http://www.placesnamed.com/s/e/seals.asp|accessdate=2006-07-27]

It is located at the point where the Old Jefferson Highway meets the railway line, just east of Floyd Hammock. It is shown on maps of the county between 1895 and 1955 as being about halfway between Woodbine and Kingsland, cite web|title=Camden County, 1895|work=GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government|year=2006|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/camden1895map.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27] cite web|title=Camden County, 1899|work=GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government|year=2006|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/camden1899map.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27] cite web|title=Camden County, 1904|work=GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government|year=2006|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/camden1904map.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27] cite web|title=Camden County, 1915|work=GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government|year=2006|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/camden1915map.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27] cite web|title=Camden County, 1955|work=GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government|year=2006|url=http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/camden1955map.htm|accessdate=2006-07-27] and can be seen on modern topographic maps such as TerraServerUSA.cite web|url=http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=17&X=540&Y=4269&W=3&qs=%7cseals%7cga%7c|title=60 km N of Jacksonville, Florida, United States 7/1/1975|work=TerraServerUSA|accessdate=2006-07-28]

Seals is the present north end of the First Coast Railroad, leased from CSX Transportation in April 2005.cite web|url=http://www.rtands.com/breaking_news_archive.shtml|title=Late Breaking Rail Industry News - CSXT leases Northeast Florida branch line to G&W subsidiary|work=RT&S - Railway Track and Structures|year=2005|author=Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp.|accessdate=2006-07-28] Seals Swamp lies to the east of Seals at coord|30|52|6|N|81|41|0|W.cite web|url=http://www.brainygeography.com/features/GA.swamp/sealsswamp.html|title=Seals Swamp Georgia|work=BrainyGeography|accessdate=2006-07-28]

History

Before the American Civil War the county supported a number of plantations; sixty eight were documented in the county history book "Camden’s Challenge (Readdick 1976)". However, many of these were abandoned after the Civil War, and small farms started to flourish instead. Many tiny communities were formed and later abandoned, some now little more than a few overgrown remains, but presenting undoubted possibilities for archaeological investigation. A line of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, later part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, was opened in January 1894 [Railga.com, [http://railga.com/flcenpen.html Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad] ] between Kingsland and Woodbine, and Seals was on the line about halfway between the two. Seals was only one of many villages - others included Burnt Fort, Center Village, Kinlaw, Scarlett, Walker Swamp, Tompkins, Clarksville, Red Cap, Ceylon, Satilla Bluff and Spring Hill.cite web|title=An Archaeological Site Inventory of Camden County, Georgia|format=pdf|author=Carolyn Rock|year=2006|url=http://www.camdencounty.org/CCAS/Survey_Report.pdf|accessdate=2006-07-27]

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