- Ossabaw GHS Historical Marker
- Located on Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw Island was home to Native Americans
for four thousand years before the arrival of Europeans in the
sixteenth century. Planter John Morel began indigo cultivation
and timbering in the 1760's. Four separate tracts were owned
by various Morel descendants late in the nineteenth century.
By reconstruction (1865-1867), the island was occupied by the
Freedmen's Bureau. Dr. Henry Torrey and Nell Ford Torrey of Grosse
Point, Michigan bought the island in 1924. Their daughter, Eleanor
Torrey West, established the Ossabaw Foundation in 1961. In 1978
the Torrey and West families sold and gift-deeded Ossabaw to
Georgia, making it Georgia's first Heritage Preserve.
- Erected by the Georgia
Historical Society and the
- Ossabaw Island Foundation
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