Lazaretto Creek Pilings
by Renee Sullivan
Title
Lazaretto Creek Pilings
Artist
Renee Sullivan
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
In the foreground of the image are pilings from the old Lazaretto Creek fishing pier. Lazaretto Creek is one of two creeks that make Tybee Island an island. Just minutes from Savannah, Georgia, it feels like a world away. If you look closely, you will see a small bird sitting on the right piling. Other than that small bird flying peacefully into my scene, there was not a movement or a sound to be heard on this calm, peaceful foggy morning.
The western end of Tybee Island once was a quarantine station for sick passengers coming in off ships. Unfortunate passengers thought to be carrying a communicable disease were quarantined here, and if they died they were buried on the spot. "Lazaretto" is an Italian word for an institution or hospital for those with contagious diseases, and the name was applied to the creek that separated the quarantined Tybee Island from the mainland.
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August 13th, 2014
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