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I was born in Charleston, SC in 1953 and grew up on the Isle of Palms, SC- a coastal
barrier island outside of Charleston. Goat Island lies directly behind the Isle of Palms.
I was wondering if this Henry Holloway is the same Henry in your family line? I remember meeting the "Goat" man and his wife on several occassions as a young boy.
Goat Island and its companion, Little Goat Island,Charleston County,
are apparently named for the
fact that goats were once raised on these islands, a
sort of open range as it were. Goat Island, this Goat
Island to be specific, has an additional distinction of
having been the home of "The Goat Man." This local
character, a retired Charleston butcher whose real
name was Henry Hollaway, withdrew from the world
with his wife Blanche in 1931. There on Goat Island
they lived for thirty-one years in a sort of "back to
nature" existence, with very occasional trips to a store
on the Isle of Palms. His visits must have had a
reaction similar to that which Rip van Winkle re-
ceived in his day. "The Goat Man" died in 1962 at
the age of eighty and his wife followed him one year
later. These two islands are located behind the Isle
of Palms, but on the mainland side of the Inland
Waterway.7
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