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FLORIDA & SOUTH EAST

Standing in the middle of the immaculate lawn, I look around at the beautiful mansions with their grand entrances and enormous balconies. It’s hard to believe they were built as 19th-century ‘holiday cottages’.

Welcome to Georgia’s Jekyll Island, once the winter playground of America’s wealthiest families including the Roosevelts and Vanderbilts. We peek inside one of

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