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October 30, 2006 · about 20 years ago

DNR launches new Sapelo ferry

A new passenger ferry beginning service this week between Meridian and Sapelo Island is sure to make special deliveries. The catamaran-style boat, the Katie Underwood, is named in honor of Sapelo’s last midwife. Underwood, whose parents were born into slavery on Georgia’s fourth largest barrier isla

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A new passenger ferry beginning service this week between Meridian and Sapelo Island is sure to make special deliveries.

The catamaran-style boat, the Katie Underwood, is named in honor of Sapelo’s last midwife.

Underwood, whose parents were born into slavery on Georgia’s fourth largest barrier island, delivered babies there from the 1920s through 1968.

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