Drayton Island is a privately owned heavily wooded island at the northern end of Lake George on the west side of the Saint Johns River's main channel in Putnam County, Florida, United States.

[1] Drayton Island, during the steamboat period on the St. Johns River, was a scheduled stop for tourists and boasted a hotel built in 1875 that burned in 1878.

Between freezes, orange groves produced prize fruit that brought a premium price in northern markets.

[2][3] The island was developed as a plantation when William Drayton Sr, a migrant from South Carolina, bought it along with other properties in Florida.

He served as chief justice of the Province of East Florida during colonial years and the American Revolution (1765-1780).