Bears Island is located in Bluffton, South Carolina in the intra-coastal waterways. It can be reached by an 1,800 foot causeway that has been in existence for over 100 years going back to the days when it was the home for more than a dozen tenant farmers who lived in tabby shacks along its eastern shores. The causeway is visible in the above photo as a fine white line connecting Bears Island, (which is in the lower right of the photo) to the mainland. Bears Island was once part of a grand plantation purchased by a New York City attorney in the late 1890s. The entire island was dedicated to agriculture for tenant farmers as late as 1980. The photo above - compliments of the U.S. Geological Survey - was taken circa 1990. Hurricane Matthew did little damage to the island but it did damage the causeway.
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