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HARRINGTON HALL
and MULBFRRY GROV'E, which belonged to the Raymond
Demeres in the earliest days of the colony, remained for
many years in the Demere family and were among the leading
plantations of St. Simons throughout the island's prosperous
agricultural years. No trace remains today of these
estates; the island airport is located on a part of the old
Demere property.
Mulberry Grove Plantation, to the south of the Gould
property, was developed after the Revolutionary War by
Raymond Demere, Jr., son of Captain Raymond Demere, who
owned Harrington Hall in the Frederica area in the early
days of the colony. At Raymond Demere, Jr.'s, death in
t829, his grandsons, Joseph, Lewis. John, and Paul,
inherited the Harrington property. John Fraser Demere, son
of Paul and Annie Fraser Demere, and the fifth generation of
the family, was born at Harrington Hall in 1841.
The Demeres did not return to St. Simons Island after the
War Between the States, and their land was never cultivated
again.
No trace remains today of Harrington Hall and Mulberry
Grove. The site of Harrington Hall has been marked by the
Georgia Historical Commission as one of the earliest grants
on St. Simons Island. and a residential section south of the
old place has been known for years as Harrington.
When the airport was enlarged to include the family burial
ground on the old Mulberry Grove property, the Demere
tombstones were moved to the cemetery at Christ Church,
Frederica.
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