Edisto Beach History
Edisto Island is an island south of Charleston, South Carolina that has changed more slowly than other beach developments over the years, maintaining a family atmosphere and laid back attitude in its commercial development.
Edisto Beach, earlier known as McConkeys Island was purchased by 6 Sumter Investors in 1925, who were enthusiastic about the coastal development occurring in Florida and in Myrtle Beach.
They purchased the 4 1/2 miles of coastal beach from Jeremy Inlet.... the northern most part of Edisto Beach State Park , south down to Bay Point and around into St Helena Sound for 1 1/2 miles.They paid $60,000 for the entire beach and intended to sell beach front lots of 75x125 feet for $1000.
It was all a second growth maritime forest and the locals said it was a jungle (thus the future name of Jungle Road. An Orangeburg construction investor traded cutting a road and covering it with black soil for 32 lots on the beach front. This was initially named McConkey boulevard became Palmetto Blvd.
For further reading see: Edisto Island, 1861 to 2006: Ruin, Recovery and Rebirth - Google Books Result Charles Spencer - 2008 - History - 224 pages
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