Sapelo Island Recovery Blueprint

Sapelo Island, GA

Located at one of the last remaining enclaves of the Gullah-Geechee people on Sapelo Island, Hogg Hummock strives to preserve the history of its ancestors in order to strengthen the future of its descendants. An ecology of uses, including cultural storytelling, education, housing, hospitality, and agriculture, will self-sustain the Gullah-Geechee culture on Hogg Hummock, and community ownership over this ecology will cultivate and root its wealth.

Conserving Hogg Hummock’s cultural heritage is synergistic with conserving Sapelo’s natural ecosystem, and the community’s ownership of its economy permits it to be shared and maintained. The longstanding, symbiotic relationship between the Hogg Hummock community, their land, the earth, the sea, the flora, and the fauna provides the infrastructure and foundation of a self-sustaining, ecological community for generations to come.

The recovery blueprint will analyze three major areas key to reviving Sapelo: Hogg Hummock (150 acres), Raccoon Bluff (1000 acres), and the Chocolate Plantation (25 acres).

Services: vision planning, urban design, master planning