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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 owner, Colonel Ephraim Mikell Seabrook, sold the home in 1863 to Dr. Joseph Alson Huger II and it remained in the family for over 100 years. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gordon made alterations to the interior and exterior of the home in the mid-1970s. The house is now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kent Collins.
The History of Seabrook
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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.
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.
