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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.
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.
It is the most ornate of the early Republican (Federal) houses which remain on the island. The house is a two-and-one-half story wooden building with dormers over a raised brick basement. Double-tiered porticos feature pediment, slender columns, and arched entablature.
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.
William Seabrook House, County Road 768, Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC. View 30 images in sequence. [ Photos from Survey HABS SC-124 ]
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.
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.
