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The Sea Island Company, now Sea Island Acquisition, LLC owns luxury resort properties on Sea Island and St. Simons Island, Georgia. In 1911, Howard Coffin purchased Sapelo Island on the Georgia Coast, seeking to return it to the self-sufficient plantation land it had been when owned by Thomas Spalding prior to the Civil War. With the assistance of Alfred William "Bill" Jones, Coffin rebuilt and worked the land into the 1920s. While he was working on Sapelo, he began to explor...e possibilities on the other sea islands to the south, including St. Simons and what was known at the time as "Long Island". Howard saw great possibility in the expanding web of highways and these islands as possible resort alternatives to Miami. Coffin began with purchased land on St. Simons known as "Retreat Plantation" and transformed it into golf courses. He also began building and paving roads across the island marshland to make an accessible route from the mainland town of Brunswick to St. Simons. All of these roads were meant to lead to one main destination - a resort hotel. The spot chosen was a small piece of land on the fledgling development, Long Island. He purchased the island from the Saint Simon-Long Island Company in 1926 and renamed it Sea Island, simultaneously founding the Sea Island Company. The resort began as a minor day-trip vacation spot with a few cottages. Miami resort architect, Addison Mizner, designed the Spanish motif of the hotel, and may have suggested the name of The Cloister. Construction began in 1927 and by October of 1928 the Cloister Resort Hotel was open to the public. When The Cloister opened, Howard Coffin turned over the management of the Sea Island Company to Bill Jones I, who then took over leadership after Coffin's death in 1937, starting the tradition of a family run organization. His grandson, Bill Jones III, took over as CEO in 1992. See more

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