Goat Island is an island located between
Mt. Pleasant and
Isle of Palms
An isle is an island, land surrounded by water. The term is very common in British English. However, there is no clear agreement on what makes an island an isle or its difference, so they are considered synonyms.
Isle may refer to:
Geography
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South Carolina
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, United States, on the
Intracoastal Waterway. It is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the region, being only as large as a neighborhood street.
Inhabitants
According to legend, in 1931, a married couple from Charleston, Blanche and Henry Holloway, moved to the island to escape the strictures of contemporary society, where they lived in isolation, with a herd of goats, for over 30 years.
In 1961, the Holloways accepted a small hut as a gift from concerned neighbours; however Henry Holloway, known as the Goat Man, soon contracted pneumonia and died. Blanche Holloway survived alone on Goat Island for nearly a year after Henry's death; she died from burns caused by a wood-burning stove that was also a gift from the neighbours.
References
Islands of Charleston County, South Carolina
Islands of South Carolina
Coastal islands of South Carolina
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