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This island located in McIntosh County, Georgia was named for Edward Teach, a pirate known as “Blackbeard” who conducted raids on merchant shipping in the eighteenth century. The island was used as a quarantine station to prevent the spread of yellow fever in the 1800s, and established as a national wildlife refuge in 1924.
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