Managing a Georgia Coastal Treasure

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the University of Georgia  

Sapelo Island is in the midst of an estuary, where upland freshwater mixes with the ocean to form some of the most important and biologically productive ecosystems in the world. Sapelo is home to one of only a few Gullah Geechee communities who still exist along our barrier coastline.

Services

• Interpretive Planning

• Content Research & Writing

• Exhibit Concept Plan

Design Approach

Sapelo Island has a long human history from pre-European people, to enslaved West Africans, to early plantation owners and industrialists, to the current community at Hogg Hummock. This history reflects the ways nature, history, culture, and economics have intersected on the island, past to present.

In the newly designed visitor center we will tell the stories of protection and preservation of the island’s fragile but resilient past to present.