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Listen: The Blues ProgramTabby house - Fort George Island, Florida
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Today this structure is called the Thomson Tabby house, for Charles Thomson, who began building it in 1854-5 but never finished it. Tabby is a concrete-like substance made from sand, oyster shells, and lime, a technology transplanted from Africa. The building practice was prevalent in Florida and coastal Georgia in the 1700s and early 1800s.
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