Wormsloe

Noble Jones applied for a lease of 500 acres on the southern side of the Isle of Hope. There he began building a fortified house overlooking the Skidaway Narrows. It was constructed between 1739 and 1745 and made of wood and tabby. Tabby is a crude concrete made or oyster shells and lime stone. He dubbed the estate Wormsloe, probably named for the Wormslow Hundred a Welsh border country from which Noble Jones hailed.
Until the ban on slavery lifted in 1749, Worlmsloe was run by indentured servants. After that date, slave labor was used. The estate tried growing several kinds of crops, but was mainly unsuccessful.
It is now a State Historic Site in Chatham County
Chris Allen