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The village of Yufera, home to the Timucuan Native Americans, was perched on a bluff above the Satilla River. By 1650, though, with the advent of Spanish settlers and their diseases, the Timucua who once spread across large swaths of Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida had been wiped out. A century later, the English conveyed land grants to their settlers, including James Nephew, a prominent planter in Georgia and South Carolina. The plantation was named for Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), the South Asian country renowned for its rice and tea plantations. Roughly 120 African-American slaves worked the rice fields before the Civil War, according to the state of Georgia.
After the war, with the slaves freed and the plantation system dead, locals turned to timber and naval stores for their livelihoods. Massive longleaf pine logs were floated down the Satilla to a deep water harbor alongside Ceylon for export. The Ceylon Mill Village, built in 1874, flourished into the new century until the pine forests were decimated. In 1915, according to local lore, a night watchman didn’t add enough water to the mill’s boiler prompting the boiler to explode and rocket to the other side of the river.
About all that remains today are the dead. The Ceylon Cemetery is shrouded in moss-covered oaks, tall pines, sparkleberry and saw palmetto. Most of the headstones are illegible or decayed. Not William McNish’s. He was a plantation owner, who died in 1828, and wealthy enough to encircle his rather ornate tombstone with a wrought iron fence to keep hogs and cows at bay. Mrs. Eliza J. Peaddick wasn’t as fortunate: a gopher tortoise burrow lies underneath her headstone.
Nobody knows how many African-Americans are buried in the sandy soil. Surveys indicate 76 graves, but most are unmarked, their wooden crosses long since disintegrated in the near-tropical torpor. Baileys, Harrises, Mungins and Sheffields are buried here, though. And so is Corporal Andrew Bailey, an ex-slave believed to have served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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The village of Yufera, home to the Timucuan Native Americans, was perched on a bluff above the Satilla River. By 1650, though, with the advent of Spanish settlers and their diseases, the Timucua who once spread across large swaths of Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida had been wiped out. A century later, the English conveyed land grants to their settlers, including James Nephew, a prominent planter in Georgia and South Carolina. The plantation was named for Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), the South Asian country renowned for its rice and tea plantations. Roughly 120 African-American slaves worked the rice fields before the Civil War, according to the state of Georgia.
After the war, with the slaves freed and the plantation system dead, locals turned to timber and naval stores for their livelihoods. Massive longleaf pine logs were floated down the Satilla to a deep water harbor alongside Ceylon for export. The Ceylon Mill Village, built in 1874, flourished into the new century until the pine forests were decimated. In 1915, according to local lore, a night watchman didn’t add enough water to the mill’s boiler prompting the boiler to explode and rocket to the other side of the river.
About all that remains today are the dead. The Ceylon Cemetery is shrouded in moss-covered oaks, tall pines, sparkleberry and saw palmetto. Most of the headstones are illegible or decayed. Not William McNish’s. He was a plantation owner, who died in 1828, and wealthy enough to encircle his rather ornate tombstone with a wrought iron fence to keep hogs and cows at bay. Mrs. Eliza J. Peaddick wasn’t as fortunate: a gopher tortoise burrow lies underneath her headstone.
Nobody knows how many African-Americans are buried in the sandy soil. Surveys indicate 76 graves, but most are unmarked, their wooden crosses long since disintegrated in the near-tropical torpor. Baileys, Harrises, Mungins and Sheffields are buried here, though. And so is Corporal Andrew Bailey, an ex-slave believed to have served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
One of Sri Lanka's rarest birds. Sinharaja World Heritage Site
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*Type name : CEYLON
*Releasing date :JUN,1ST,2012 PM4:00 (Korean standard time)
*Configuration : Normal skin CEYLON HEAD PARTS
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*Nearby Amenities & Transport
LRT/MONORAIL STATION
RAJA CHULAN STATION 2 KM
BUKIT NANAS STATION 1.3KM
BUKIT BINTANG STATION 750 M
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Being a combination of both home and offices, VIDA will provide very comprehensive facilities that caters to its tenants as both a residence as well as a professional office. The rooftop will hold an infinity pool that is for exclusive use of residents with a sky lounge and sky terrace with sun loungers, complemented by a gymnasium that comes with full fledged hi-tech fitness equipment and a poolside cabana with sofa beds for ultimate relaxation. These facilities are for the exclusive use of residents during their off work period. propertywhiteboard.com/listings/vida-bukit-ceylon-1109sqft/
The village of Yufera, home to the Timucuan Native Americans, was perched on a bluff above the Satilla River. By 1650, though, with the advent of Spanish settlers and their diseases, the Timucua who once spread across large swaths of Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida had been wiped out. A century later, the English conveyed land grants to their settlers, including James Nephew, a prominent planter in Georgia and South Carolina. The plantation was named for Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), the South Asian country renowned for its rice and tea plantations. Roughly 120 African-American slaves worked the rice fields before the Civil War, according to the state of Georgia.
After the war, with the slaves freed and the plantation system dead, locals turned to timber and naval stores for their livelihoods. Massive longleaf pine logs were floated down the Satilla to a deep water harbor alongside Ceylon for export. The Ceylon Mill Village, built in 1874, flourished into the new century until the pine forests were decimated. In 1915, according to local lore, a night watchman didn’t add enough water to the mill’s boiler prompting the boiler to explode and rocket to the other side of the river.
About all that remains today are the dead. The Ceylon Cemetery is shrouded in moss-covered oaks, tall pines, sparkleberry and saw palmetto. Most of the headstones are illegible or decayed. Not William McNish’s. He was a plantation owner, who died in 1828, and wealthy enough to encircle his rather ornate tombstone with a wrought iron fence to keep hogs and cows at bay. Mrs. Eliza J. Peaddick wasn’t as fortunate: a gopher tortoise burrow lies underneath her headstone.
Nobody knows how many African-Americans are buried in the sandy soil. Surveys indicate 76 graves, but most are unmarked, their wooden crosses long since disintegrated in the near-tropical torpor. Baileys, Harrises, Mungins and Sheffields are buried here, though. And so is Corporal Andrew Bailey, an ex-slave believed to have served in the Union Army during the Civil War.