Pinckney Island

Inhabited for some 10,000 years,

Pinckney Island was known as

Espalanga, Look–out, and Mackey's

prior to about 1775. Alexander

Mackey received two Proprietary

grants for land on the island

in 1710. Charles Pinckney later owned

the island and willed it in 1769

to his son, Charles Cotesworth, ...