The fort was a station for Confederate troops, and its guns helped protect the 2-mile wide (3 km) entrance to Port Royal Sound, which is fed by two slow-moving and navigable rivers, the Broad River and the Beaufort River.
It was vital to the Sea Island Cotton trade and the southern economy.
The island features 12 miles (19 km) of beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean and is a popular vacation destination.
In 2004, an estimated 2.25 million visitors pumped more than
The fort was a station for Confederate troops, and its guns helped protect the 2-mile wide (3 km) entrance to Port Royal Sound, which is fed by two slow-moving and navigable rivers, the Broad River and the Beaufort River.It was vital to the Sea Island Cotton trade and the southern economy.
||The fort was a station for Confederate troops, and its guns helped protect the 2-mile wide (3 km) entrance to Port Royal Sound, which is fed by two slow-moving and navigable rivers, the Broad River and the Beaufort River.
It was vital to the Sea Island Cotton trade and the southern economy.
The island features 12 miles (19 km) of beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean and is a popular vacation destination.
In 2004, an estimated 2.25 million visitors pumped more than $1.5 billion into the local economy.
The chapel's old cemetery, located near the corner of William Hilton Parkway and Mathews Drive (Folly Field), is all that remains.
Charles Davant, a prominent island planter during the Revolutionary War, is buried there.
Hilton Head Island is a primary city within the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 207,413 in 2015.
.5 billion into the local economy.The chapel's old cemetery, located near the corner of William Hilton Parkway and Mathews Drive (Folly Field), is all that remains.
Charles Davant, a prominent island planter during the Revolutionary War, is buried there.
Hilton Head Island is a primary city within the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 207,413 in 2015.
Once the island fell to Union troops, hundreds of ex-slaves flocked to Hilton Head, which is still home to many "native islanders", many of whom are descendants of freed slaves known as the Gullah (or Geechee) who have managed to hold on to much of their ethnic and cultural identity.Hilton Head Island offers an unusual number of cultural opportunities for a community its size, including plays at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, the 120-member full chorus of the Hilton Head Choral Society, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, an annual outdoor, tented wine tasting event on the east coast, and several other annual community festivals.It also hosts the Heritage Golf Classic, a PGA Tour tournament played on the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines Resort.For a time, Hilton Head was known as Trench's Island.In 1729, Trench sold some land to John Gascoine which Gascoine named "John's Island" after himself.