It's made of tabby, a concretion of oyster shells.
William Hughes
Cannon's Point Preserve on St. Simons Island contains the scattered ruins of John Couper's plantation. The ruins consist of a tabby potato barn, slave cabin rubble, the brick chimney of the overseer's house, and the plantation complex that includes a detached kitchen and what is probably the remnants of a hospital. The plantation complex was built ...with tabby taken from Fort Frederica, poured tabby, and bricks.
Cannon's Point was home to Native Americans, as demonstrated by shell middens dating back to 2500 BCE. Daniel Cannon, James Oglethorpe's carpenter, was allowed to settle there. John Couper purchased the property in 1793 and built a thriving plantation. Couper died in 1850, and after the Civil War, the property changed ownership several times. In 2012 St. Simons Land Trust purchased the property and set up Cannon's Point Preserve.http://www.tabbyruins.com/blog/cannons-point
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