Petit Gauke Hammock Island

The island is situated between Savannah and Tybee Island; it is named after the canopies of mossy oak hammocks on the island. The ownership of the island had changed a couple of times. Historically, the land was granted by Sir James Wright, governor of the colony of Georgia, in the name of King George III to Philip Delegal on May 1, 1764. At the end of the Revolutionary War, the land was confiscated and publicly sold to first William Steadman and then Joseph Stiles. In 1925, the island was sold out of the Stiles estate to Livingston McLaws.