In 1886 a club of Rockefellers, Morgans and Vanderbilts paid $125,000 for Jekyll Island off Georgia and kept it as a private winter retreat for 56 years; in 1947 the state condemned the island, took it for $675,000, and has run it as a state park ever since
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In 1904, Munsey’s Magazine surveyed the private playgrounds of America’s rich and awarded Jekyll Island the full crown: the richest, the most exclusive, the most inaccessible club in the world. The judgment was barely an exaggeration. The membership roll of the Jekyll Island Club, capped at a hundred shares, read like the index of a Gilded Age history: J.P. Morgan, William Rockefeller, William K. Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Joseph Pulitzer, Astors, Goulds, men said, in the era’
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