Fort Screven

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The Savannah Volunteer Guards occupy tents at Fort Screven in 1917, when the United States entered World War I. Built on Tybee Island from 1885 to 1897, Fort Screven was one of the state's five major military installations at that time.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # ctm194.

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