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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.
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.
A guide to where we've been from here and now. The History of Seabrook
16 paź 2018 · 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. The main house has five bedrooms, four full baths, and two half baths.
But he, too passed the deed to wealthy plantation owner William Seabrook, whose name it has borne since. 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.
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.
The Seabrook family was forced to leave their plantation house (which was located near Haulover Cut on the Johns Island side) and move inland. In 1863 the Seabrook family sold the Island to the Gregg family for $150,000 Confederate money. Seabrook became a staging area Union troops. These troops came into ports
