Hog Hammock Historic District

Hog Hammock is a 427-acre African-American community district on Sapelo Island. Many of the full-time inhabitants of the Hog Hammock community, also known as Hogg Hummock, are African Americans known as Gullah-Geechees, descendants of enslaved West African people brought to the island in the 1700s and 1800s to work on island plantations. This community was named after an early resident named Sampson Hog according to a legend. This site is on the National Register of Historical Places.