On the southern end of Cumberland Island National Seashore is the ruins of Dungeness. This palatial home was built on the foundations of an earlier home built by the widow of General Greene of Revolutionary fame. That home burned in the mid 1800’s and Thomas Carnegie, at the encouragement of his wife Lucy, built this home when he purchased 7000 acres of the island. He died shortly after and she lived here for 40 more years making a self-sufficient community and building homes for her children on parts of the island. This home burned in 1959. The park service has 3800 acres of designated wilderness and the National Seashore comprising a large portion of the southern end of the island. There are still some private owned homes and land scattered across the island.
