Roughly 30 to 50 Black residents live in Hogg Hummock, also known as Hog Hammock, a community of dirt roads and modest homes founded by their enslaved ancestors.
Located on largely unspoiled Sapelo Island, about 60 miles south of Savannah, Hogg Hummock was founded by formerly enslaved people who had worked on the plantation of Thomas Spalding.
The zoning changes doubled the size of houses allowed in Hogg Hummock. Residents say that will lead to property tax increases that they won’t be able to afford, possibly forcing them to sell land their families have held for generations.
