Oatland Island

Oatland Island located five miles east of Savannah Georgia has a unique history. Although it is an education center today the walls once housed retired railroad conductors patients scientists inventors and teachers. This book showcases various photographs of the Oatland Island facilities and documents the rich history and stories of its evolution from a retirement community for the Order of Railway Conductors to a United States Public Heath Service research hospital to the original location of the Centers for Disease Control and to the Oatland Island Wildlife Center of Savannah Georgia.