Horton House Historical Site
A Legacy Continues
The plantation that Christophe Du Bignon
established at the beginning of the nineteeth
century had its good and bad years.
When Christophe's youngest son, Henri,
married Ann Amelia Nicolau in 1808, they were
given 40 acres of planted cotton. This was a
good indication that Christophe approved of
the young Frenchwoman. The du Bignon
family, as new immigrants, closely held to
their native culture, and this was evident
in this marriage as well as the close-knit
community of friends and business agents
that were also recent refugees from France
and Haiti.
Henri eventually inherited the entire
island when both Christophe and Marguerite
died in 1825. The close ties with the French
community continued with Henri. However,
growing up in America allowed him to live
and move more easily amoung the American
culture than his father.
Henri remained on Jekyll Island until 1852
when he remarried and moved his new wife
to Ellis Point, north of Brunswick.
Marker can be reached from Riverview Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
