East Beach Station

	US Coast Guard Station--St. Simons Island
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The Coast Guard Station in 2015
Location	4201 First St., St. Simons Island, Georgia
Coordinates	31°08′44″N 81°22′23″W / 31.14562°N 81.37316°W
Area	2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built	1936
Architect	U.S. Coast Guard Civil Engineer's Office
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	98000297
Added to NRHP	April 1, 1998

East Beach Station (or US Coast Guard Station-St. Simons Island or Historic Coast Guard Station) is a station of the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Simons, Georgia, United States, located at 4201 1st Street. It was built in 1936 as a part of the Works Progress Administration initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Coast Guard Station played a part in World War II when it helped save the crew of two merchant ships, the SS Oklahoma and the Esso Baton Rouge, both tankers. These two ships were torpedoed by a German submarine U-123. The station is one of the forty-five originally built under President Roosevelt, and is one of the few that have survived to this day.

East Beach Station is now operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society as the World War II Home Front Museum: Coastal Georgia at War, which brings to life Coastal Georgia's contributions during World War II through the eyes of residents of small communities like Brunswick and St. Simons, in Glynn County.^[2]

The Coastal Georgia Historical Society also operates the St. Simons Island Lighthouse and adjacent A. W. Jones Heritage Center on St. Simons Island.

The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "World War II Home Front Museum". Coastal Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
^ NRHP form

External links

Coast Guard/East Beach County Park
World War II Homefront Museum
Media related to US Coast Guard Station (St. Simons Island) at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] "World War II Home Front Museum". Coastal Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 2019-02-26.

[3] NRHP form

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