Seals is an unincorporated location in Camden County in the state of

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, United States. Its position is at at an elevation of 21 feet. It is located at the point where the Old Jefferson Highway meets the railway line, just east of Floyd Hammock. It is shown on maps of the county between 1895 and 1955 as being about halfway between Woodbine and

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, and can be seen on modern topographic maps. Seals is the present northern terminus of the

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, leased from

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in April 2005. Seals Swamp lies to the east of Seals at .

History

Before the

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the county supported a number of plantations; sixty eight were documented in the county history book ''Camden's Challenge (Readdick 1976)''. However, many of these were abandoned after the Civil War, and small farms started to flourish instead. Many tiny communities were formed and later abandoned, some now little more than a few overgrown remains, but presenting undoubted possibilities for archaeological investigation. A line of the

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, later part of the

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, was opened in January 1894 between Kingsland and Woodbine, and Seals was on the line about halfway between the two. Seals was only one of many villages - others included Burnt Fort, Center Village, Kinlaw, Scarlett, Walker Swamp, Tompkins, Clarksville, Red Cap, Ceylon, Satilla Bluff and Spring Hill.

References

External links

Seals on Google Street View
{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Camden County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)