Ossabaw Island, Georgia

Ossabaw Island, Georgia (Photograph by William Harrell)

Tabby House, Ossabaw Island(Photograph by Fran Lapolla)

Draped in Spanish moss and overrun by the wild descendants of hogs introduced in the sixteenth century, Georgia’s Ossabaw Island is both a time capsule and rural oasis. Just 20 miles south of Savannah by water, Ossabaw spans 26,000 acres. Among its hundreds of archaeological features, representing at least 4,000 years of human habitation, are shell rings and burial mounds left