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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 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.
This is an online listing of numerous Old Saybrook historic homes and sites. The first 52 locations replicate the printed Self-Guided Tour, available as a walking or biking tour, from the train station to Saybrook Point; a collaboration between the Historical Society and the Chamber of Commerce.
English seaside village in Kent named Seabrook, and a coastal port in Holland (now part of Belgium) named Zeebroeck, both in existence in the early 1600’s. Elrod’s extensive research also noted numerous written mentions, by Gardiner and others, referring to the inhabitants of SeaBrooke, Fort SeaBrooke and the town
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.
Like historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina’s oldest city, Seabrook Island harbors its own rich history, from the Colonial era and colorful pirate tales, through Revolutionary skirmishes and the Civil War to contemporary times.
