Captured by Leland Kent of Abandoned Southeast, the Dungeness ruins on Cumberland Island in the US state of Georgia are today all that remains of a series of mansions that housed some of America’s most prominent families.

Named after the Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II, the island was first settled in 1733 by English General James Oglethorpe, who used it as the site for a hunting lodge he dubbed Dungeness, after an English headland in Kent.

However, by the time of the American Revolution, the island had been divided by royal grants and was uninhabited.

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