At least seven people were killed Saturday after part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, according to a spokesperson for the state agency that operates it.
Georgia authorities say they are investigating the "catastrophic failure" of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven people on Sapelo Island. Multiple people were taken to hospitals, and crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the McIntosh County Fire Department, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and others were searching the water, according to spokesperson Tyler Jones of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, which operates the dock.
Cultural Day is an annual fall event spotlighting the island's tiny community of Hogg Hummock, which is home to a few dozen Black residents. The community of dirt roads and modest homes was founded by former slaves from the cotton plantation of Thomas Spalding.Small communities descended from enslaved island populations in the South - known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia - are scattered along the coast from North Carolina to Florida.
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