This is the William Simmons House. It is on Gumtree Road on Hilton Head Island. It will be part of the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island. Many people grew up in small houses like this. Some of them are being restored. This one will be part of the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island. [...]
Our favorite restaurant on Hilton Head Island, Hudson’s has it's own fleet of shrimp boats. Hudson’s Menu says; THOSE ARE REAL SHRIMP BOATS "Hudson’s is the only restaurant on Hilton Head Island that has a working fleet of shrimp boats. Jeff and Skip Toomer are third generation shrimpers, and they directly dock at the restaurant [...]
I found this little park walking around on Wild Horse Rd. So, who was Greyton H Taylor? He was a son of Walter Taylor. Walter Taylor founded the Taylor Wine Company in upstate New York in 1880. You’ve seen Taylor wine. It’s the stuff that comes in the really big bottles. Walter Stephen Taylor was [...]
Driving down William Hilton Parkway, just as you pass where Mathews Drive comes back out on the right, you can find an old graveyard and the Baynard Mausoleum. The graves date to the Revolutionary War. The sign says Historic Zion Cemetery and the Baynard Mausoleum. The chapel has been gone since 1868. Just the cemetery [...]
Step back in time at the historic Honey Horn Plantation. These are the only remaining historic buildings on the island. Discovery House museum has natural history and cultural heritage exhibits. It follows island history from pre-European natives, to plantation history and other islanders who lived, worked or hunted on Hilton Head Island. Exhibits at Discovery [...]
Sea Island Cotton was the most valuable cotton. It could be sold for twice the price of other cotton. It had very fine strands up to 2 1/2” long. It felt very silky and was often blended with silk when woven. Sea Island Cotton grew over six feet tall and bloomed continuously from June to [...]
There is an Indian Shell Ring in Sea Pines Forest Preserve. It is a ring of shells, several feet high. There is some doubt about what it is, but they think it was probably just a refuse heap. Signs suggest that, as the earliest inhabitants of Hilton Head Island picnicked, they threw the shells over [...]
This is a post card of the Steam Cannon that was built on Hilton Head Island. The back of the postcard says; “Modern day explorers reconstruct the past atop the gigantic steam cannon on Hilton Head Island. The huge gun, built during the Spanish-American War was fired by steam and was called “the most fearful [...]
Discovery House, the museum at Honey Horn Plantation, has a stuffed Carolina Parakeet. They were much bigger than my parakeets. Budgies are a little over 1 oz. to 1.4 oz. Carolina Parakeets were 3.5 to 4 oz. Carolina Parakeets used to live all over what early Spanish colonists called Carolana, the territory from the Atlantic [...]
This is a postcard of the ruins of the Stoney-Baynard Plantation. There is very little left, but these are the remains of a house and slave quarters. They are built of tabby, a sort of concrete made from shells. Shells were burned to create lime. The lime was mixed with water, sand and broken stones [...]