Acknowledging the ongoing threats to our historic community including gentrification facilitated by land loss through tax sales and zoning changes, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation‘s “Places in Peril” Program has listed our community of Hogg Hummock as one of ten “Places in Peril” for 2024.
From the article: “Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, the Hogg Hummock community (also known as Hog Hammock) on Sapelo Island faces a renewed threat to its historically significant design and cultural heritage. Home to one of the last remaining Gullah Geechee communities in the United States, Hogg Hummock was established by direct descendants of West Africans who were enslaved on the plantations of coastal Georgia. Following the Civil War, these formerly enslaved peoples settled on Sapelo Island and purchased over 400 acres of land. As with other Gullah Geechee communities, Hogg Hummock developed a distinct, interconnected culture of subsistence and cooperative living, due in part to the relative isolation from communities on the mainland.”
Read More Here on the Trust’s website.
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