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2021/01/27 04:19 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A woman who relinquished ownership of one of Georgia s largest barrier islands to ensure its preservation has died at age 108. A grandson of Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West confirmed that she died on her birthday Jan. 17, the Savannah Morning News reported. West s family owned Ossabaw Island for more than five decades before she sold it in 1978 to the state of Georgia for $8 million. The deal required that the island s 26,000 acres (10,520 hectares) of beach, marsh and maritime forest remain undeveloped and used only for study, research, education and conservation. “She felt so extraordinarily lucky to have Ossabaw in her life,” said the grandson, Beryl Gilothwest. “It completely changed her life from the moment she stepped foot on it.” ....
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A woman who relinquished ownership of one of Georgia s largest barrier islands to ensure its preservation has died at age 108. A grandson of Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West confirmed that she died on her birthday Jan. 17, the Savannah Morning News reported. West s family owned Ossabaw Island for more than five decades before she sold it in 1978 to the state of Georgia for $8 million. The deal required that the island s 26,000 acres (10,520 hectares) of beach, marsh and maritime forest remain undeveloped and used only for study, research, education and conservation. “She felt so extraordinarily lucky to have Ossabaw in her life,” said the grandson, Beryl Gilothwest. “It completely changed her life from the moment she stepped foot on it.” ....
Image zoom St. Phillips Island, South Carolina It s a bit like a fragile family heirloom passed down with care and love. What better way to describe South Carolina s remarkable St. Phillips Island? Jigsaw-puzzled among its marshy sea-isle sisters southeast of Beaufort and just northeast of Hilton Head, St. Phillips lay largely undisturbed other than by temporary Native American habitation, colonial oversight by the Spanish, and well-heeled sportsmen who came here for pig hunts until famed media mogul Ted Turner bought the island for $2.4 million in 1979. St. Phillips encompasses nearly 4,682 acres of ancient landscape, all of it accessible only by boat, featuring narrow ridges of upland dunes flanking freshwater sloughs, with live oaks and magnolias on the high ground, palmettos and marsh grasses on the low. Here was a strand of pale and shifting sands cradling the boneyard remnants of trees, a salty Eden where dolphins leaped and vivid painted bunt ....
More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Honoring the legacy of Sandy West, Ossabaw Island The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Ossabaw Island Foundation offer our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West who died on January 17, 2021 at the age of 108. Both the Georgia DNR and the Ossabaw Island Foundation have worked closely with Ms. West over the past several decades.
Ms. West served as the matriarch of Ossabaw Island, which is made up of 26,000 unspoiled acres of forest, wetlands and beaches on the Georgia coast in Chatham County. Ms. West’s parents purchased the island in 1924 and in 1978, Ms. West and her family sold Ossabaw Island to the state of Georgia. At that time, an executive order established Ossabaw as Georgia’s first heritage preserve, which decrees that the island ....
Ms. Sandy West, The Matriarch Of Ossabaw Island, Remembered Wednesday, January 20, 2021 The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Ossabaw Island Foundation offer their deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West who died on January 17, 2021 at the age of 108. Both the Georgia DNR and the Ossabaw Island Foundation have worked closely with Ms. West over the past several decades. Ms. West served as the matriarch of Ossabaw Island, which is made up of 26,000 unspoiled acres of forest, wetlands and beaches on the Georgia coast in Chatham County. Ms. West’s parents purchased the island in 1924 and in 1978, Ms. West and her family sold Ossabaw Island to the state of Georgia. At that time, an executive order established Ossabaw as Georgia’s first heritage preserve, which decrees that the island may only be used for “natural, scientific and cultural study, research and education, and environm ....