Dewees Island History

Self Guided Tour now Open!!!!

We’re so excited to have the tour up and running.  Around the island you’ll see 10 plaques with QR codes on them.  Use your phone to scan the codes and learn more.  Not on the island?  You can just do the virtual program by clicking through the links.

Click here to go right to the tour

History Resources, an Interactive Timeline, and more...

Most of the historical resources of Dewees Island are maintained by the Archives Committee. Down below,  you’ll see the word “Sutori”.  This is a really cool timeline that gathers information from the web and our island Archives: you can scroll chronologically through this to find out some seriously cool stuff. In the meanwhile, here are some other links about Island History:

Archives Committee
New History Self Guided Tour
Early Human Inhabitants of Dewees
The Huyler Years