Scope and Contents This series consists of the bound copies of the official minutes of meetings held by the Jekyll Island State Park Authority. Topics discussed (a random cross-sample) include: (1) meeting every 2nd Saturday of each calendar month; (2) planning the general development of the Island; (3) cost of bridge linking Jekyll Island to the mainland; (4) cost of toll to be collected; (5) establishing Jekyll game refuge; (6) budget appropriations; and, (7) adoption of by-laws to govern the Authority....

Scope and Contents This series consists of (not an inclusive list): (1) correspondence (2) contracts (3) an audio tape (4) blueprints (5) weather data (6) employment requests (7) promotion and publicity material (8) photographs (9) requests for information (10) newspaper clippings. This material quite succinctly documents the formation and evolution of the Jekyll Island Authority and its transformation of Jekyll Island into one of the seven wonders of Georgia. For example, the records illustrate the various...