Waties Island is an almost untouched, undeveloped barrier island located off South Carolina’s eastern coast. The island is primarily used as an educational research facility by the Coastal Carolina University. Before the Europeans arrived, the island was inhabited by the Waccamaw Indians, who left a number of artifacts, ceramics, and burial mounds. The island was given to the university by Horace Tilghman, who bought it in 1920. Waties Island was deliberately left undeveloped by its prior private owners and is one of the last undeveloped barrier islands on the coast of South Carolina.

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