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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 Seabrooke was sold in 2023 to a company, and the official owner is listed as Votja Novak. According to his LinkedIn, Votja purchased the Seabrooke alongside another boat, the Incentive,...
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.
30 sie 2009 · “The Seabrook cottages were built in 1935 by Thomas Stone. The Seabrooks worked for the Stones and lived on the property as caretakers. The cottages are still on the property. One is used as an office and the other has been modified into a larger residence for the current owner.”—-
William Seabrook, as part owner of the Edisto Island Ferry, bought the steamboat “W. Seabrook” which performed ferry duty among the islands south of Charleston during the early nineteenth century.
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.
1732: Island named Jones Island after its first owner, Thomas Samuel Jones. Indigo and rice established as its first cash crops. 1753: Island’s name changed to Simmons Island after new owner, Ebenezer Simmons. Cultivation of cotton as next crop cash. 1816: Island sold to William Seabrook, and renamed Seabrook Island.
