Tabby Ruins (Horton House)

Tabby was the building material for walls, floors, and roofs widely used throughout coastal Georgia during the Military and Plantation Eras. It was composed of equal parts of sand, lime, oyster shell, and water mixed into a mortar and poured into forms.

Many historic buildings and ruins in coastal Georgia, particularly on the sea islands, were constructed from tabby, including Horton's tabby house on Jekyll Island.