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Sapelo - People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island (Hardcover)
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Sapelo - People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island (Hardcover)
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Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is
one of the state's greatest treasures. Presently owned almost
exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature charac teristics
that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological
conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J.
Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and
funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA's study of the
island's fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology
movement. With this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of
the island's history, including Native American inhabitants;
Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative
Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island
after the Civil War; Sapelo's two twentieth-century millionaire
owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the
development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the
state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo's
multiple African American communities into one. Sapelo Island's
history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances
of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides
in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo's
culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of
private and state owners of the island. The book's thematic
approach is one of "people and place": how prevailing environmental
conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land
over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management
in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color
photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images
and maps, Sapelo documents a unique island history.
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