Sea Island And Myrtle Beach

The Sea Islands are a chain of tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. They number over 100, and are located between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns Rivers along the coast of the U.S. states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. They are noted historically for their distinct Gullah/Geechee Creole-type culture and language and currently for rapid resort, recreational, and residential development.

During the American Civil War, the Union Navy and the Union Army occupied the islands early in the war. The whites had fled to the mainland while the blacks stayed, largely running their own lives (as they already had much of the time, since plantation families often stayed on the mainland to avoid malaria and isolation). This changed after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When the proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, over 5,000 slaves on Union-occupied islands obtained their freedom. Unlike some Union-occupied areas of Virginia and Louisiana, the Sea Islands were not exempted from the Proclamation.

They were also struck by the Sea Islands Hurricane in 1893.

Major Sea Islands

South Carolina

Sea Islands in Charleston County, South Carolina

• Bear Island
• Bull Island
• Dewees Island
• Edisto Island (also in Colleton County)
• Folly Island
• Isle of Palms
• James Island
• Johns Island
• Kiawah Island
• Morris Island
• Seabrook Island
• Sullivan's Island
• Wadmalaw Island

Sea Islands in Beaufort County, South Carolina

• Bay Point Island
• Cane Island
• Cat Island
• Coosaw Island
• Dataw Island
• Daufuskie Island
• Distant Island
• Fripp Island
• Gibbes Island
• Harbor Island
• Hilton Head Island
• Hunting Island
• Lady's Island
• Morgan Island
• Parris Island
• Port Royal Island - From the 1600s until the American Civil War, Port Royal Island was the geographical area for St. Helena Parish and the town of Beaufort, the cultural center for the wealthy planters in the area.
• Pritchards Island
• St. Helena Island
• St. Phillips Island
• Spring Island

Georgia

The Golden Isles of Georgia

• Jekyll Island
• Little St. Simons Island
• St. Simons Island
• Sea Island

Other Islands

• Blackbeard Island
• Cumberland Island
• Ossabaw Island
• St. Catherines Island
• Sapelo Island
• Tybee Island
• Wassaw Island

Florida

• Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach

External links

• Sea Islands: Erosion Remnant Islands and Barrier Islands -- Beaufort County Library

References

1. ^ William Klingaman, Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 (NY: Viking Press, 2001), p. 234

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