Georgia appraised Ossabaw Island at $16 million in 1978 and Sandy West sold it to the state for half that, keeping a life estate on 23 acres around the family house; she lived there until she was 103, died on her 108th birthday, and the 26,000-acre island still has no bridge and no airfield
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Ossabaw Island sits twenty minutes by boat from Savannah, Georgia, and several decades from everywhere else. It is the state’s third-largest barrier island, 26,000 acres of beach, salt marsh and live-oak forest hung with Spanish moss, roamed by wild pigs, alligators and a herd of feral donkeys. There is no bridge. There is no airstrip, no ferry service, no paved road. In a coastal region where every comparable island long ago sprouted causeways and gated golf communities, Ossabaw remains r
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