User talk:Censusmarin001

Censusmarin001 (talk) 19:27, 27 August 2016 (UTC) I don't feel confident trying to edit a page so I will write here changes I would like to suggest for the fourth paragraph beginning, "Officially renamed "Savannah Beach" . . ." on the wikipedia page for Tybee Island, Georgia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tybee_Island,_Georgia).

Tybee Island was originally incorporated as the Town of Ocean City (citation: http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=c0c148f3-2142d3a730-0812&type=law&byte=61660426) on October 15, 1887 and renamed as Tybee December 26, 1888 (cite: http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=c0c148f3-2142d3a730-0812&type=law&byte=63572955). The name was changed again to "Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island" on August 1, 1929; the name was commonly shortened to just Savannah Beach. (cite: http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=c0c148f3-2142d3a730-0812&type=law&byte=159702599) The town became a city effective February 20, 1970 (cite: http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=c0c148f3-2142d3a730-0812&type=law&byte=315010349) before finally changing to simply Tybee Island on March 17, 1978. The name "Savannah Beach" nevertheless appears on official state maps as far back as 1946 and as recently as 1978.) (replace citation 4 with http://www.dot.ga.gov/DriveSmart/MapsData/Documents/HwyAndTransportationMaps/1946.pdf to show the change of earliest date).

All citations retrieved August 27, 2016. Personally, I'd suggest dropping the sentence about the name Savannah Beach appearing on state maps for the period cited. Why wouldn't the legal name of the town appear on the official state maps during some of the period in which that name was in effect? Thank you.