Overview
- An online questionnaire asks residents to rank four proposed messages for a brass plate that will sit atop a commemorative boulder in Freedom Park.
- The boulder will be engraved with the names of the seven victims, four of whom were from Jacksonville.
- The survey follows a one-year remembrance on Sapelo Island organized by SICARS that included speakers, flowers, wreaths and candle lighting.
- SICARS leaders say phased plans call for a permanent memorial on Sapelo Island, potentially including a statue and labeling at the dock.
- The Oct. 19, 2024 gangway collapse during Gullah-Geechee festival ferry boarding killed seven people, and a lawsuit filed in June by attorneys Ben Crump and Chadrick Mance alleges negligence by engineering and construction firms.