Ossabaw Sound

Ossabaw Sound lies among the barrier islands and tidal waterways of the Georgia coast. Ossabaw Island shelters the waters from the Atlantic, with salt marshes and creeks extending behind it. Indigenous people used the island extensively, and Spanish records suggest that a Guale village named Asapo stood there. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Spanish missions appeared along the coast, where the Guale supplied food to the newcomers.