US Coast Guard Station--St. Simons Island

US Coast Guard Station--St. Simons Island - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

East Beach Station (or US Coast Guard Station-St. Simons Island or Historic Coast Guard Station) is a station of the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Simons, Georgia, United States, located at 4201 1st Street. It was built in 1936 as a part of the Works Progress Administration initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Coast Guard Station played a part in World War II when it helped save the crew of two merchant ships, the and the Esso Baton Rouge, both tankers. These two ships were torpedoed by a . The station is one of the forty-five originally built under President Roosevelt, and is one of the few that have survived to this day. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1936

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