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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.
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.
At the height of the Civil War, Seabrook sold the island to William Gregg, who rented the land to Charles Andell. In 1917, the island was sold to sportsmen for hunting, fishing, and recreation; their club was known as the Kiawato Club, a portmanteau of Kiawah and Edisto, the two neighboring islands. [ 8 ]
And in 1971, the Andells sold Seabrook Island for development of a private residential resort. Today, the same philosophy of gracious living in a protected natural environment, is embodied by the island’s developers, beginning with the original developers. The Seabrook Island Company, a South Carolina limited partnership.
William Seabrook bought the Island in 1816 and changed the name once again. This time to its current designation, Seabrook Island. They owned the property until the start of the Civil War. The Civil War and eventually reconstruction, changed life on Johns and Seabrook Islands.
Myrtle Beach is a resort city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a long and continuous 60-mile (97 km) stretch of beach known as the " Grand Strand ” in the northeastern part of the state.
Myrtle Beach is a man-made island and coastal tourist resort, and is located on South Carolina's South Atlantic coast. The history of Myrtle Beach as an island dates back to 1936, when it was separated from the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway.
