Colonial/ Native American
Interpreter who was awarded St. Catherines and Ossabaw Island for her work establishing the Georgia colony. She lived on St. Catherines.
Mary Musgrove
Coastal concrete that originated in West Africa and was brought to the coast by enslaved people.
Tabby
Steel family that owned Cumberland Island whose mansion, Dungeness, burned down and whose ruins remain.
Carnegie
Number of barrier islands on the Georgia coast accessible by car:
4
Name two Gullah Geechee communities on the Georgia Coast
Hog Hammock and Pin Point
Plant originally from South America that was made into a "cake" and traded to dye clothing.
Indigo
Tabby construction utilized oyster shells to make lime and to provide structure. Where did the oysters come from?
Native American shell middens
Hudson Motor Company engineer Howard Coffin owned this island.
Sapelo
The Nature Conservancy bought this island for a dollar and put it in protection with U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
Wassaw
large, endangered reptile that utilizes the Georgia coast for nesting:
Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Franciscan monks from Spain established a mission on St. Catherines. What was the name of the mission?
St. Catalina de Guale
Field Order Number 15 was established at the end of the Civil War. It provided what promise to freed people?
40 acres and a mule if available.
The Berolzheimer family bought this island for its cedar trees. The original plan was to use the trees to make pencils.
Little St. Simons
Kerr McGee had bought Little Tybee and planned to mine the island and the surrounding marshes for this:
Phosphate
Relative to the scorpion whose copper- based blood is utilized in the medical field:
Horseshoe Crab
Native Americans on the Georgia coast used oysters as a source of protein during the winter months. Their discarded shells formed trash heaps we call these:
middens
Enslaved people on Sapelo can trace their roots to Thomas Spalding's head driver. His name is:
Bilali Mohammad
Tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds donated a portion of this island (the Dairy Barns) to the University of Georgia for a marine institute.
Sapelo
The Coastal Marshlands Protection Act was established in an effort to protect the marshes. It was signed by segregationist governor, Lester Maddox. 2020 marks what anniversary of the act?
50 year
Plant made into tea and ingested in large, concentrated quantities by Native Americans that was used as a ritual:
yaupon holly (ilex vommitoria)
Matriarch of Ossabaw Island who sold the island to the state of Georgia as the state's first heritage preserve with the help of Jimmy Carter.
Eleanor "Sandy" West
In 2019, what happened in St. Simons Sound that has prompted a massive and lengthy clean-up response?
Golden Ray capsize