About Skidaway Island, Georgia

Skidaway Island is a community of 9,310 people in Chatham County, on a barrier island of the same name south of Savannah. Much of it lies inside The Landings, a large gated community known for its golf courses and homes along the water, while another part of the island holds the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, run by the University of Georgia.

Islanders have chosen to keep their community unincorporated. When a March 2019 referendum asked whether to make it the City of Skidaway Island, voters turned the bill down by a wide margin, and the island has no city government.

  • Forty acres in 1865Before the Civil War, planters worked the island with enslaved labor. On January 15, 1865, Special Field Order No. 15, put out by General William T. Sherman, handed plantation land here to freed people in plots of up to 40 acres. Land records show plots granted from April 11, 1865, through that summer and early fall. President Andrew Johnson opposed the transfers, no law backed them, and nearly all of the land was given back to its white owners.
  • Shell rings from long agoArchaeologists have found several sites on the island that may be shell rings, round or half-round mounds built by the people who lived here first. They are known as Skidaway, Skidaway 9, Skidaway 21 and Odingsell, and none of them has ever been excavated.
  • A name for a chief's wife?Nobody knows for certain where the name Skidaway came from, though it may come from Yamacraw or another Creek language. In 1967 Hal E. Brinkley suggested in How Georgia Got Her Names that it could be an English version of Scenawki, wife of the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi, for whom James Oglethorpe named the island.

Find your street

Names on the Skidaway Island map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Skidaway Island State Park
  • Marshwood at the Landings
  • The Landings
  • Deer Creek

Streets and roads79

  • Diamond Causeway
  • North Landings Way
  • Tidewater Way
  • Landings Way
  • Waterside Road
  • Mc Whorter Drive
  • Franklin Creek Road
  • Waterway Drive
  • Modena Island Drive
  • Shellwind Drive
  • Westcross Road
  • Bartram Road
  • Green Island Road
  • Yam Gandy Road
  • Delegal Road
  • Islanders Retreat
  • Wiley Bottom Road
  • Log Landing Road
  • Priest Landing Drive
  • Peregrine Crossing
  • Little Comfort Road
  • Sundew Road
  • Mercer Road
  • Rookery Road
  • Wickersham Drive
  • Lufburrow Way
  • Hasleiters Retreat
  • Gray Heron Retreat
  • Monastery Road
  • Long Island Road
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  • Pettigrew Drive
  • Noble Vw
  • Willeford Drive
  • Lake Street
  • Pelham Road
  • Cotton Crossing
  • Romerly Road
  • Deer Creek Drive
  • Village Green Circle
  • Black Hawk Trail
  • Deer Run
  • Morning Marsh Road
  • Brandenberry Road
  • Middleton Road
  • Cabbage Crossing
  • Coventry Close
  • Modena Road
  • Hibernia Road
  • Saltwater Way
  • Westridge Road
  • Hobcaw Lane
  • Pineside Lane
  • Oyster Reef Road
  • Modena Way
  • Skidaway Island Park Road
  • Tarrow Ridge Road
  • Hemingway Circle
  • Seawatch Drive
  • Southerland Road
  • Sweetgum Crossing
  • Mainsail Crossing
  • Pepper Bush Circle
  • Sparnel Road
  • Loyer Lane
  • Marsh Haven Lane
  • Highgate Lane
  • Captains Crossing
  • Franklin Creek Road South
  • Marina Drive
  • Magnolia Crossing
  • Samuel Lyons Way
  • Marsh Tower Lane
  • Riverwatch Lane
  • Huntingwood Retreat
  • Cotesworth Place
  • Lakewood Route
  • Stargrass Retreat
  • Cranes Nest Court
  • Sky Sail Circle

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