[hider=History of St. Alexander]
Before the colonial era, St. Alexander was the island of Pequosset, ‘bloodshed’ in the native Indian tongue. The nature of said moniker was due to the notoriously violent and allegedly cannibalistic Lawcasee tribe, who had made Pequosset part of their territory. Through centuries of violent infighting with neighboring tribes, the Lawcasee were raid-for-raid gradually exterminated, the climax of which occurred on the island of Pequosset itself, where legend holds that the last of the Lawcasee were massacred in a bloody last-stand battle against the neighboring tribes just decades before the first colonists landed. Due to the bloody history of the island, Spanish and French colonizers largely ignored Pequosset until the British arrived. In the early 1670s, as the city of Charleston was founded, Pequosset was incorporated with it and renamed St. Alexander (after the Christian martyr whom the lions of the Roman Colosseum would not touch). 

As Charleston expanded economically over the latter half of the 17th century, St. Alexander progressed with it. However, what set the two islands apart was the prevalence of smallpox and yellow fever on the mainland, which, after repeated outbreaks, had rendered the citizens of Charleston practically immune to it. However, those on St. Alexander were isolated from the disease, and so did not develop said immunity. It was thus that a major cultural split developed between town and island: the native Charlestonians would never really consider the St. Alexandrians as geographical natives, and the solitary St. Alexandrians generally considered Charleston an unhealthy and unsafe place to stay in. Nevertheless, St. Alexander earned a reputation for being a good stopover point by visitors and traders to avoid the yellow fever on the mainland, and by 1756 was thriving on the commerce of pine timber, beaver pelts, rice, and (naturally) slaves. 

When the Grey Rot started, St. Alexander was a natural checkpoint for the screening of refugee ships for infected, and also temporary housing for refugees. This also naturally made St. Alexander the first territory in South Carolina to fall should an outbreak happen. As the influx of refugees increases and increases, it is clear the island is becoming a giant ticking time bomb - a single outbreak could merit an island-wide quarantine by the colonial authorities.[/hider]