Ossabaw Island Heritage Day
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Ossabaw Island Heritage Day

Did your ancestors live, work or own land on Ossabaw Island from 1760 - 1980? Were you an OIP or Genesis Project member ? Join us!

By Ossabaw Island Foundation

Date and time

Saturday, May 11 · 9am - 4pm EDT

Location

Ossabaw Island, North End

Main rd Ossabaw Island, GA 000000

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About this event

  • 7 hours

FOR TICKET INFO CONTACT ROBIN@OSSABAWISLAND.ORG or 912-344-3900.

Descendants of Ossabaw, and former participants in the Ossabaw Island Project and Genesis, and Sandy West-era university programs are invited to spend a day on Ossabaw Island, Georgia’s third largest barrier island.

  • Did your parents, grandparents or other ancestors live, work or own land on Ossabaw Island from 1760 - 1980?
  • Were they tenant farmers, enslaved people, Torrey Family employees, land owners, Freedmen, hunting guides, timbermen, or cattlemen?
  • Were you an Ossabaw Island Project or Genesis Project participant between 1961 - 1983?
  • Did you visit Ossabaw as a student on one of Eleanor "Sandy" Torrey West's university programs?

Please join us as the Ossabaw Island Foundation brings Ossabaw's people together for a day of food, friendship, history, and remembrance.

Travel one hour by pontoon cruising boat through the Moon River District's rivers and creeks, across Ossabaw Sound to the island’s North End. The day's events will include optional tours to learn about Ossabaw's 5,000 years of human history, and where your people's roles fit into that timeline.

Optional tours: Ossabaw's North End, including the Club House, the Boarding House, and the three tabby slave cabins, all restored in the last 20 years.

Middle Place, site of the founding of Hinder Me Not Baptist Church, by the Bond brothers. Also the site of the stables for the Torrey family, and of a sawmill owned and operated by the Torreys, and of Genesis, the semi-self-sustainable community created by Mrs. Eleanor "Sandy" Torrey West.

The Torrey West House, former winter residence of the Torrey Family, and site of the Ossabaw Island Project, an interdisciplinary creative program created by Mrs. West.

Enjoy a box lunch you take with you as you explore Ossabaw Island , then return to the mainland on a late afternoon cruise through the Moon River District.

An informational email will be sent to all who register about 10 days before the event.

Questions? Email robin@ossabawisland.org or call 912-344-3900.

Organized by

Ossabaw Island Foundation

The Ossabaw Island Foundation (TOIF) is a non-profit 501 (c) 3.  Through a partnership with the State of Georgia, TOIF inspires, promotes, and manages exceptional educational, cultural, and scientific programs that are designed to maximize the experience of Ossabaw Island, while minimizing the impact on the island's resources.  

ABOUT OSSABAW ISLAND: Ossabaw Island is a 26,000-acre undeveloped barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean, owned by the State of Georgia and located in Chatham County. Georgia's first Heritage Preserve, accessible only by boat, is undeveloped and set aside by an Executive Order for natural, scientific and cultural study, research and education; and for environmentally sound preservation, conservation and management of the island's ecosystem.

$65