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A guide to where we've been from here and now. The History of Seabrook
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.
This c. 1870 house was owned by William Buckingham Tully (1839-1880), the publisher of the Saybrook News. He donated several artifacts to the Historical Society, including the Cromwellian Sealskin Chair and the Gilliam Saybrook Chest located at the Gen. William Hart House.
English seaside village in Kent named Seabrook, and a coastal port in Holland (now part of Belgium) named Zeebroeck, both in existence in the early 1600’s. Elrod’s extensive research also noted numerous written mentions, by Gardiner and others, referring to the inhabitants of SeaBrooke, Fort SeaBrooke and the town
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.
Early History (1666-1970) 1400 BC: Inhabited by coastal Indians – the Kiawah, Stono, and Bohicket tribes. 1666: Col. Robert Sanford arrived on the island in 1666 as an explorer working on behalf of Britain’s King Charles II.
William Seabrook House, County Road 768, Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC. View 30 images in sequence. [ Photos from Survey HABS SC-124 ]
