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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
Thus, Seabrook Island has served for 300 years under six flags – Spanish, French, English, South Carolinian (Palmetto), Confederate and American. It was in 1661 that Sir John Colleton, a friend of the English King Charles II, conceived a colony in “Carolana” based on a Proprietorship.
The William Seabrook House, also known as the Seabrook [2] is a plantation house built about 1810 on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States, southwest of Charleston. [3] It is located off Steamboat Landing Road Extension (South Carolina State Highway 10-768) close to Steamboat Creek [4] about 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Steam Boat Landing.
Tradition attributes design of the house to James Hoban, architect of the White House, who practiced in Charleston in the 1790s. William Seabrook, as part owner of the Edisto Island Ferry, bought the steamboat “W. Seabrook” which performed ferry duty among the islands south of Charleston during the early nineteenth century.
The Seabrook–Wilson House (also known as the Whitlock–Seabrook–Wilson Home and nicknamed the Spy House) is located at 119 Port Monmouth Road in the Port Monmouth section of Middletown Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
William Seabrook House, County Road 768, Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC. View 30 images in sequence. [ Photos from Survey HABS SC-124 ]
