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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
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.
Listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places, the Seabrook–Wilson House is one of the oldest surviving houses in the Bayshore. The Seabrook‐Wilson House began as a small cabin about 1720 and over the years was expanded and altered many times by later generations.
Seabrook is currently governed by an elected mayor under a typical council government system and utilizes the regulations of mandatory membership – which some will argue has stifled real estate development and home sell prices. Seabrook Island Takes Ownership for Itself
William Seabrook House, County Road 768, Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC. View 30 images in sequence. [ Photos from Survey HABS SC-124 ]
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
