Tybee Island Vacation Rental

Why not get a vacation rental in the great touristy island of Tybee Island. It is a great place to have a vacation in. You may want a luxury or cheap vacation accomodation. You may want to rent, buy, sell, hire, loan, share or timeshare a villa or other vacation accomdation in the island. Perhaps you may require renting some vacations.

Tybee Island is also the site of the first of what became the Days Inn chain of hotels.

The Tybee Island Light Station is one of just a handful of 18th century lighthouses still in operation in North America. First built in the year 1736, the lighthouse was made of brick and wood,and was standing 90 feet tall, making it the highest structure in America at that time.

Today the Tybee Lighthouse is a popular tourist destination, having all of its support buildings on the five acre site historically preserved. The current black and white tower markings is a reversion to its fourth day mark, first used in 1916

Tybee Island may be best known outside of Georgia as the home of the Tybee Bomb, a nuclear weapon that was lost offshore on February 5, 1958. Officially renamed Savannah Beach in a publicity move at the end of the 1950s, the city of Tybee Island has since reverted to its original name (although maps show the use of the name Savannah Beach as far back as 1952 and as recently as the mid 1970s on official state maps). The small island, which has long been a quiet getaway for the residents of Savannah, has become a popular vacation spot with tourists from outside the Savannah metropolitan area.

Chatham County is a county located in the USA state of Georgia. The county seat is Savannah, Georgia. It is one of the original counties of Georgia, created February 5, 1777. It is named after William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham.