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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.
A guide to where we've been from here and now. The History of Seabrook
Thus, Seabrook Island has served for 300 years under six flags – Spanish, French, English, South Carolinian (Palmetto), Confederate and American. It was in 1661 that Sir John Colleton, a friend of the English King Charles II, conceived a colony in “Carolana” based on a Proprietorship.
The William Seabrook House, also known as the Seabrook [2] is a plantation house built about 1810 on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States, southwest of Charleston. [3] It is located off Steamboat Landing Road Extension (South Carolina State Highway 10-768) close to Steamboat Creek [4] about 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Steam Boat Landing.
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.
William Seabrook House, County Road 768, Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC. View 30 images in sequence. [ Photos from Survey HABS SC-124 ]
(Dodge Plantation) Built ca. 1810, the William Seabrook House established a distinct style of architecture which was reproduced, with minor variations, in plantation houses subsequently built on Edisto Island. It is the most ornate of the early Republican (Federal) houses which remain on the island.
