East Beach Station
Coordinates: 31°8.746′N 81°22.402′W / 31.145767°N 81.373367°W
East Beach Station is a station of the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Simons, Georgia, located at 4201 1st Street. It was built in 1933 as a part of the Works Progress Administration initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Coast Guard Station played a part in World War II when it helped save the passengers of two merchant ships, the SS Oklahoma and the Esso Baton Rouge. These two ships were torpedoed by a German submarine U-123. The station is one of the forty five originally built by President Roosevelt, and is one of the few that have survived to this day.
East Beach Station is now operated by the Coastal Georgia Historical Society as the Maritime Center at the Historic Coast Guard Station, with exhibits about the military history of St. Simons Island and the ecology of the islands off the coast of Georgia.
The Coastal Georgia Historical Society also operates the St. Simons Island Lighthouse and adjacent A. W. Jones Heritage Center on St. Simons Island.
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