Gun emplacements for target practice out over the Atlantic are still visible south of the Marriott Hotel as the sands shift with the tides. These join Indian relics and landmarks of the Revolution and Civil War that are found throughout the island.
Electricity arrived in As did the first telephone in These farsighted men ended the use of Land for timbering and hunting, and began selling the Land to developers. They brought a system of land use that became the prototype of many other successful developments by focusing on preserving the natural environment.
Dirt roads gave way to paved ones. Beautiful bridges replaced Ferry boats accessing the Island. Residential Plantations developed often around original Plantation boundaries. In , The Island Packet, our present daily Newspaper, was first published as a 12 page tabloid. The Island Hospital was built in , and the Town population was then 6, This beautiful sea island continues to offer Visitor and Resident alike a beautiful oasis featuring miles of pristine Atlantic Ocean beaches, world-class golf, tennis recreation and a renewal of spirit as one finds himself surrounded, and enriched by, the peaceful beauty of nature.
She has been an Island Resident since It was first published in Many visitors to Hilton Head Island have questions about the Island. Show your friends and…. Island Events provides a comprehensive view of what Hilton Head Island has to offer in the way of shopping, dining, activities, and events. If you would like to preview Island Events before your arrival, you can view Island Events online.
The rack card distribution center is chock full of businesses that offer activities, shopping, dining and more. If you would like to preview the rack cards before your arrival, you can view them online. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer Search this website. Contact Us Directories. The island population had swelled to thousands during the height of the union occupation, but by then, it was just a few hundred.
This small population of former slaves were among the Gullah of the lowcountry whose culture still lives on around the lowcountry today! In the s, the first bridge to Hilton Head was built. Developer Charles Fraser visited the island, and was so inspired by the natural beauty of our island that he developed the Sea Pines Resort, our island's first resort community.
Today the strict guidelines employed by Charles Fraser in respect to our island's natural environment have been both admired and nationally recognized. Today Hilton Head Island is best known for its 12 miles of beautiful beaches.
Our island is the 2nd largest barrier island on the East Coast and is home to a variety of wildlife. On any given day your family may encounter a bottlenose dolphin, a snowy egret, a blue heron, white tailed deer, an occasional manatee or a lazy alligator basking in the sun. If you or someone you know has a fabulous Hilton Head vacation rental property, you will want to In , English sea captain William Hilton landed on Hilton Head Island and, thus, the seeds of the first successful plantations were sown.
Commissioned by a group of Barbados planters to find new land on which to plant sugar and indigo, Hilton soon claimed the Island in the name of the British Crown. Hilton, however, was not the first European to visit the Island. In , the Spanish were the first confirmed Island visitors, but many historians speculate that English explorer Sebastion Cabot may have sighted its shores during his expedition to the New World in In the 's, French Huguenot colonists sought refuge on Hilton Head Island, fleeing persecution in their own Catholic homeland.
Soon they moved to more protected water, settling in an area that today is known as Beaufort, South Carolina. Earliest Inhabitants When Hilton landed on the Hilton Head Island beach in , he was greeted by Spanish-speaking Indians from the Yemassee tribe who had migrated north from Florida a hundred years earlier at the behest of Spanish colonists. He also encountered the native Ewascus Indians, but little is known of the earlier native civilization which inhabited the Island 4, years ago.
Remnants of mysterious shell rings, measuring up to feet across and nine feet high, can still be found on the Island. A white population that utterly transformed the island began to claim control of Black land in the name of preservation.
To increase public control, the island was incorporated into a town in Meanwhile, Black property taxes soared. Outparcel titles are often complicated. Many federal land sales and surveys were destroyed after the Civil War. After several generations, property heirs could be numerous and geographically widespread. For a predatory developer, the trick was to seek out one of these heirs and buy their share in the land.
Anyone with a share could force a partition sale. The developer would sue to clear title, force an auction, and then easily outbid heirs living on the property. They would acquire prime real estate for pennies on the dollar. Heirs were forced off. But the checks came way too late, he said. The damage is done. Some outparcels are still not serviced with sewage disposal or running water. Black islanders have worked to sustain the history of their place.
Fraser inherited a legacy of European colonization. Retirees fit into a lineage of white settlers at a leisure subtended by brown and Black labor. This is an imaginary lineage. The harsh climate and threat of mosquito-borne illnesses brought over on African slave ships kept most of the first plantation masters and their families far away from the island. Some even owned property. Before the Civil War, and certainly after, we can imagine an island almost entirely inhabited by Black people.
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