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William Seabrook was a Sea Island cotton planter and part-owner of the Edisto Island Ferry, which had a steamboat named the W. Seabrook. The house was built around 1810.
A guide to where we've been from here and now. The History of Seabrook
The Seabrook House, 47 Lawrence Street, c. 1850 John Archibald Seabrook is believed to be the original owner of this home, built in the 1840s-50s. These Lowcountry style homes—two-story frame weatherboard on six-foot piers.
20 lut 1995 · The Spinach King. At a Seabrook Farms reunion, confronting painful family histories became a shared experience for the descendants of Japanese war internees and the heirs of C. F. Seabrook–“the Henry Ford of agriculture,” and the author’s grandfather. From The New Yorker. February 20, 1995.
16 paź 2018 · The house was built by William Seabrook in 1810 on 350 acres with majestic views, surrounded by deep water (approximately forty feet). Kiawah and Seabrook Island are only a short boat ride away. The house is a Federal-style plantation with a grand, double staircase designed by James Hoban, the architect of the White House.
Seabrook never cultivated a large part of the island and it remained wooded for use as source of timber and as a home for free-roaming hogs, cattle, and horses. 1863: Family of William Gregg, a textile magnate active in promoting the industrialization of the South, assumes ownership.
Seabrook, who owned numerous summer homes in the lowcountry, took advantage of Seabrook’s unspoiled forests and plenteous reserves of wild game for a hunting and fishing ground. It was some 50 years later, in the midst of the Civil War, that the island again changed hands, being sold to William Gregg, who never occupied the land.
