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    Sapelo Island /ˈsæpəloʊ/ is a state-protected barrier island located in McIntosh County, Georgia. The island is accessible only by boat; the primary ferry...
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    Sapelo Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Georgia, United States, near the southern tip of Sapelo Island. It is the nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse...
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    and Florida. The largest is Johns Island, South Carolina. Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah people. All of the islands are acutely threatened by sea level...
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  • Simons Island and began purchasing land on Sapelo Island. By the time of his death in 1851, Spalding and his family owned all of Sapelo Island with the...
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  • Cornelia Walker Bailey (category People from Sapelo Island)
    and historian who worked to preserve the Geechee-Gullah culture of Sapelo Island, Georgia. Bailey was born on June 12, 1945, to Hicks Walker and Hettie...
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    Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia...
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  • second, a skeletal tower, is the former Sapelo Island Light, which was moved to the site in 1934. The Fox Island Lighthouse Association (FILA), a non-profit...
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    Hog Hammock, Georgia (category Sapelo Island)
    Hog Hammock is an African-American community on Sapelo Island, a barrier island of the U.S. state of Georgia. The community of Hog Hammock, also known...
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    Gullah-Geechee name could have also been adopted from the Ogeechee River. Sapelo Island, the site of the last Gullah community of Hog Hammock, was also principal...
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  • Island community. Granted, the Nickelodeon show was filmed on the more touristy Fripp Island, Ga., but the cultural base for the show was all Sapelo....
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  • was constructed in 1964. The lighthouses on Cumberland Island, Sapelo Island, and St. Simons Island are on the National Register of Historic Places. The...
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    elevated land believed to have formed as coastal dunes or an offshore barrier island. The St. Marys River and the Suwannee River both originate in the swamp...
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    salt marshes into Sapelo Sound, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates St. Catherines Island to the north from Sapelo Island to the south. List...
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  • Cockspur Island Cumberland Island Jekyll Island Little Tybee Island Sapelo Island St. Catherines Island St. Simons Island Tybee Island Wassaw Island Ossabaw...
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  • the 19th century by Bilali Mohammet, an enslaved West African held on Sapelo Island of Georgia. The document is held at the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript...
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    "Sapelo Red Peas | Southern Foodways Alliance - Southern Foodways Alliance". www.southernfoodways.org. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2021-07-25. "Sea Island red...
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    Blackbeard Island Four Mile Island Creighton Island Wolf Island Black Island Hird Island Little Sapelo Island Wahoo Island Darien (county seat) Crescent...
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    [citation needed] On Sapelo Island in the community of Hog Hammock, Geechee red peas are used instead of black-eyed peas. Sea Island red peas are similar...
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    sanctuary, designated in January 1981, is located 19 miles (31 km) off Sapelo Island, Georgia, and is one of 14 marine sanctuaries and monuments that make...
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    Daufuskie Island, located between Hilton Head Island and Savannah, is the southernmost inhabited sea island in South Carolina. It is 5 miles (8 km) long...
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    from Timbo, Futa-Jallon, in present-day Guinea-Conakry, who arrived at Sapelo Island during 1803. While enslaved, he became the religious leader and Imam...
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  • Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within...
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    River National Recreation Area Cumberland Island National Seashore Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve...
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    to their dead soldiers. These were Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Turner having died while in discharge of her duty, the WRC...
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    Hilton Head Island, often referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United...
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    Helena Island is a Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The island is connected to Beaufort by U.S. Highway 21. The island has a...
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  • acquired Sapelo Island on the Atlantic coast of Georgia and, following the death of Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston in 1938, the Butler Island Plantation...
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    The Sapelo Island Range Front Light (or Sapelo Island Range Beacon) is a lighthouse range light on Sapelo Island, Georgia, U.S. It is near the Sapelo Island...
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  • located on St. Catherines Island from 1602 to 1680, then on Sapelo Island from 1680 to 1684, and finally on Amelia Island from 1684 to 1702. The mission...
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  • Mission San Joseph de Sapala: Mission Period Archaeological Research on Sapelo Island, Georgia 2003-2007. pp. 52–53. Hann 1990, pp. 456–458. Hann 1990, pp...
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