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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.
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.
20 lut 2024 · If anything about a 20-year-old town could be described as historic, this shingle-style house would make the registry: In 2005, when Seabrook founders Casey and Laura Roloff first ventured to forge an idyllic seaside village from Washington’s coastline, this was the first place they called home.
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.
Sir Joseph Blake Landgrave and the Jones’s. Landgrave actually received the first land deed ever awarded indicating owner ship of what is now Seabrook Island in 1669. This was the collective decision of the Proprietors.
South by about 900 property owners, This milestone allowed the owners of property at Seabrook Island to control their own destiny, in that roads, rights-of-way, beach trust, amenities, etc. were now owned and controlled by the property owners.
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.
