Ashantilly

The Ashantilly Center, which is also referred to as “Old Tabby,” was the mainland home of Thomas Spalding, an early Georgia planter, legislator, and McIntosh County landowner. The house was named after Ashintully Castle, an ancestral home in Perthshire, Scotland. The original house built about 1820 burned down in 1937 and the current house was maintaineg by the Haynes family which created a non-profit educational and cultural Center. Mr. Haynes was an artist and had a small letterpress printer known as The Ashantilly Press. The Haynes were also avid environmentalists. This site is on the National Register of Historical Places.