Barn

Detail of the tabby walls of the Kingsley Plantation barn. This type of tabby concrete is called "whole shell tabby" since it also contains whole oyster shells. The whole shells were added to speed the drying time of the tabby and to increase the volume of the mixture. Oyster shells were readily available on St. George Island because it had been inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years. The Native Americans harvested shellfish for food and left the empty shells to pile up into what we call "middens."


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