St. Marys’ Sugar Mill: A Tabby Marvel
Join Molly at the ruins of the McIntosh Sugar Mill in St. Marys, Georgia, where she discusses a rare historic building material – tabby! The Spanish invented this early form of concrete: oyster shells, lime, sand, and water in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it remained a popular building material under the British and Americans in the Southeastern U.S. until the early 1800s.