Ahoy Historians: Request for Knowledge of Ossabaw Island Settlers, St. Catherines Sound, near AICW Statute Mile 620
Georgia’s Ossabaw Island forms the northern shore of the mouth of St. Catherines Sound. Mike Dalton is asking about the history of Ossabaw after reading Claiborne Young’s Ossabaw Island History from 2013. If you have information about the early settlers, we would all like to hear from you!
I was raised mostly in Wabasso Fl in Indian River County and I understand Wabasso was named by freed slaves the moved to Florida from Ossabaw. What can you tell me about some of our early settlers that left Ossabaw and moved to Florida?
Mike Dalton
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Comments from Cruisers (2)
The Ossabaw Island Foundation has a page suggesting some books.
http://www.ossabawisland.net/ossabawbooks.aspx
In my last book I dealt with the Morel family who at one time owned the island. Over the Last two decades Mrs. West has allowed the restoration of some slave cottages and several archaeological digs on the island.
Jonathan Bryant
Seems I recently saw a documentary about St Augustine’s early history and the arrival of native Americans from the Ossabaw area of Georgia when the Spanish took some revenge for hostilities. There is a website from the Georgia Historical Society about the area, which you probably already know about… if not here it is:
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/ossabaw-island