Travel for Two: Georgia’s Jekyll Island Club a Grand Revival of Past Glory
The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, with its stately turret and big bay windows, was first built in the late 1880s as a private, remote hunting club for industrialists and financiers of the Gilded Age, their surnames including Rockefeller, Morgan, Pulitzer and Goodyear. After a storied history, it reopened in 1987 as a hotel and resort. Ralph Daniel for Explore Georgia/Georgia Department of Economic Development/TNS
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Long before the legendary Jekyll Island Club Resort became a hotel, the island was already notable for several reasons, the foremost probably being its prime location on the Golden Isles, part of the cluster of barrier islands strung like a pearl necklace along Georgia’s coast. It is a beautiful, romantic place, a combination of ocean, maritime forests drizzled with Spanish moss and wide stretches of beach.
