Dungeness

Dungeness was originally a hunting lodge and then a post office located near the southern end of Cumberland Island. General Oglethorpe established and named this site after an English county seat which he owned in Kent County. Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee (1756-1818), Revolutionary cavalry officer and the father of Robert E. Lee was buried here. The third Dungeness site was built by Thomas Carnegie's widow, Lucy Coleman Carnegie, and it burned in 1959.