Pikes Bluff

Pikes Bluff is a cliff located on the western side of St. Simons Island. It is a highly historical place: at first, It is named after Richard Pike, an early settler and corporal guard who lived and watched the Frederica River for approaching Spanish hostile threat around the 1750s. Archaeological excavations reveal that during the 1800s, this might have been the site of a plantation house constructed by Reverend Mathews around 1812 and later purchased by Dr. Thomas F. Hazzard's family around 1838.