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The Landings

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1969. Entrance at Bartram Rd. and Landings Way, Skidaway Island

Inspired by the success of residential developments on nearby Hilton Head Island, the Union Camp Corporation, under the auspices of its newly acquired Chicago-based subsidiary, the Branigar Organization (led by Harvey W. Branigar Jr.), began to develop forestland it owned on Skidaway Island as a gated residential community in 1969. To facilitate this ambitious project the State was persuaded to construct a bridge to the island in 1971 (replaced by a larger one in 2013), which also served the newly established Skidaway Oceanographic Institute (19.7) and the adjacent Skidaway Island State Park (1975). At 4,500 acres, The Landings remains the largest gated community in Savannah, with six championship golf courses, thirty tennis courts, forty miles of walking trails, several clubhouses, two marinas and a residential population of about 8,500.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "The Landings", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-19.8.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 271-272.

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