Seaside Plantation Explained

Seaside Plantation
Location:10 miles east of Beaufort on U.S. Route 21, near Beaufort, South Carolina
Coordinates:32.3506°N -80.5703°W
Built:c. -1810, 1862
Architecture:Georgian, Federal
Added:July 16, 1979
Refnum:79002375

Seaside Plantation, also known as the Edgar Fripp Plantation, is a historic plantation house located on Saint Helena Island near Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1795 to 1810, and is a two-story, frame dwelling in a transitional Georgian / Federal style. It features one-story hip roofed portico. Seaside was one of the plantations participating in the Port Royal Experiment and had as its labor superintendent Charles Pickard Ware (1840–1921). Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) also resided at Seaside Plantation. Along with Tombee Plantation, Seaside is one of only a few remaining antebellum plantation houses on St. Helena. Also on the property are the contributing original, brick-lined well, a clapboard shed, a large barn with clapboard siding and tin roof, and a round concrete and oyster shell silo.[1] [2]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seaside Plantation, Beaufort County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 77, St. Helena Island). National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 25 February 2014.
  2. Web site: Cynthia D. Cole and Mary Ann Eaddy . February 1975. Seaside Plantation. National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. 25 February 2014.