"designed the clubhouse in a most easily recognized by the prominent turret that seems to be watching over the clubhouse and its grounds. Today, anyone who books a night in the Jekyll Island Club Hotel's Presidential Suite can enjoy the turret. Well over 100 years after it opened in January 1888, the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, now the centerpiece of the Jekyll Island Club Resort, looks remarkably unchanged. Noticeably, there is one piece of the early clubhouse silhouette that no longer exists. The water tower and windmill that appear in many early photographs and postcard did not survive to the modern era."

"Over the club's 54-year span, several unique events took place. In 1899, the club boasted a visit by President . In 1910, a secret island meeting was held in which the was initiated. . A outbreak in 1894 officially cancelled the season, although some still braved the danger to visit. A , eroding the beach and destroying the wharf and the island bridges. A epidemic resulted in the death of a member's wife in 1909. ... The last vestiges of the club's old guard, longtime members such as , , and John Claflin, died in the 1930s."

"The State of Georgia took formal possession of Jekyll Island on October 7, 1947. By early November, road-grading equipment was shipped to the island and approximately 15 highway department employees worked on improving the road infrastructure. While discussion of sending a work detail of 100 to 150 convicts was contemplated, it was eventually decided to use primarily contractors and paid laborers to revitalize island buildings. For a brief time in early 1948 about 30 prisoners and 6 Board of Correction guards from came to the island and trimmed palmettos, cut grass and pruned golf course vegetation. ... ... Jekyll Island State Park officially opened March 5, 1948."

"... After ’s death and temporary possession by several individuals, the island eventually passed into the hands of Christophe du Bignon, a wealthy landowner fleeing the excesses of the . Establishing a plantation built on slave labor, ownership of the island stayed in the family until the last remaining du Bignon, John Eugene, after founding the Jekyll Island Club, sold the island to the club for $125,000 in the late 1880’s. The plantation period of Jekyll’s history evokes reminders of slave labor and the horrendous conditions that they endured. ... The island achieved widespread name recognition in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the exclusive Jekyll Island Club became the destination for the fabulously wealthy titans of the country. , , and were but a few of the patrons of the club. Tangible reminders of the Jekyll Island Club years are the buildings themselves, where millionaires spent the winters on the island in the resort’s clubhouse or in their custom-built “cottages.”"

"Of the original members of the Jekyll Island Club, almost half belonged to the ."

"We could never get a grip on it. It made you crazy. When you deal with the Pentagon, you go into a world of mirrors. It was a morass. Impossible to figure out."

"The viaduct at Canton, by the way, the bold conception and fine construction of which exited so much admiration in the minds of the excursionists, really was a most creditable piece of work. When they did build, they built better in those days than they now do, and the passage of forty years of constant use has developed no greater need for repairs on the Canton Viaduct that it has on the pyramids of Egypt."

"The Viaduct at Canton, though yet unfinished, is a stupendous work. A view of it, many times repays the trouble of passing around. The excavation and embankments in Canton are also worthy of minute attention; they testify in strong language to man's domination over nature, and his ability to overcome any obstacle to any undertaking that is not morally or physically absurd. The project of cutting through these rocky heights and crossing the valley of the river by the Viaduct was a very bold one. A hesitating mind would have surmounted this by a stationary engine or some less formidable way. But any other would have detracted very much from the facilities which give value to such a road. The road has been constructed under the direction of Major McNeill, and it will stand for ages an enduring monument of the high talents and high attainments of its accomplished engineer."

"It is a splendid work, which might in the days of yore, have done honor to the enterprize of an emperor."

"The viaduct or railroad bridge, over one of the ponds and river at this point is conceded to be the most elegant and massive structure of masonry in the United States."

"Now the world holds seven wonders that the travelers always tell, Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well. But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land, It's the big Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam."

"Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull, From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth, You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."

"Don't feel sorry for yourself I'll always wait for you Your ghost is a lightshow at night On the Grand Coulee Dam. The river is watching you At the drive-in tonight Who do they comfort now Since I've gone away?"