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death of her last surviving child, unless they agreed to do so unanimously. The death of her daughter
Florence Carnegie Perkins in 1962 ended the trust, and the island was divided among the heirs. That same year, Lucy Ferguson converted Greyfield into an inn; as of 2021, it is still run by her descendants as a bed and breakfast inn. Ferguson made her home at Greyfield for more than 70 years before she moved into a smaller house.
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Dungeness, a 40-room mansion, on the southernmost end of the island; construction began in 1884 and was completed in 1885. He died of pneumonia the next year, at age 44. His widow, Lucy Coleman Carnegie, was the sole beneficiary of his estate and became
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Cumberland Island to Greyfield Land Corporation, now dissolved. This included both her houses and adjoining buildings as well as the land on which they stand. The transfer was made to establish an estate planning vehicle and to transfer partial
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Carnegie owned 16,000 acres on the island; there were other landowners on its north end, but her property was the largest. She had designed a will in 1912 that set up a complex trust arrangement to prevent her heirs from dividing or selling the island lands until the
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Cumberland, and subsequently bought more land on the island with dividends she received when Andrew Carnegie sold the Carnegie Steel Company to J. P. Morgan and partners in 1901. She built Greyfield, a semi-formal Colonial
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Margaret (1872–1927) and husband Oliver G. Ricketson; construction started in 1901 and lasted through 1905. The Greyfield tract and the house bear the name of an earlier landowner, John W. Gray, who purchased that part of the island in 1825.
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