After leaving Steamboat Landing the little steamer would travel a little north and east to the landing at Yonges Island.
Travel from Steamboat Landing to Yonges Island
From Yonges Island landing the miners would catch a local train to Rantowles Station and then travel to the nearby phosphate mines.
Travel from Yonges Island to Rantowles Station
Steamboat landing
Pilot Boy and Mary Draper carried passengers from steamboat landing at Edisto Island, then to Charleston, men bought fabric,furniture and other items for their homes on Edisto. Pg 52
The Steamer "Pilot Boy" at Steamboat Landing
The Stevens Line of Yonges Island operated the Mary Draper a steamer that carried mail between Edisto and Charleston via stops at Rockville, White Point at Slanns Island and then to Yonges Island. After retirement the steamer would be activated to carry Edistonians to the sailboat races at Rockville.
Pg 81
The Mary Draper ...of The Stevens Line
Reference:
Edisto Island. A Family Affair
Amy S. Conner and Sheila L. Beardsley
February 11th 1862 the side-wheeler steamer Atlantic a transatlantic liner disembarked the 47th New York regiment at Steamboat landing and set up a headquarters at Point of Pines. About February 15th Company G of the First Massachusetts arrived and then March 6th the Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry arrived setting up a camp at Bailey's Plantation near Point of Pines wharf.
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From the Civil War to as late as 1920 the main wharf of Edisto became Steamboat landing. it had moved from the Point of Pines wharf. Inter-island steamers would carry people, mail and cargo between Yonges Island, Rockville and Edisto. The Mary Draper was the steamer and it made the round trip every day.
Sometime around 1906 the inter island steamer " Marion" sank. It was later rebuilt and renamed the "Islander"
1914 the 4 Model T automobiles on Edisto Island ran on Naptha and this fuel was delivered at steamboat landing in 55 gal. drums.
Reference:
Edisto Island 1861-2006. Ruin, Recovery and Rebirth
Charles Spencer
Reference:
And I'm Glad- An Oral History of Edisto Island
by Nick Lindsay and Julia Cart page 93
Steamboat Landing has a much earlier history. It was part of the William Seabrook plantation on Edisto. Seabrook ran the Edisto Steamboat Co. One of the steamboats was the W. Seabrook, named for William Seabrook. W. Seabrook also made stops at Seabrook's Edisto Island plantation (now called Seabrook Plantation). The dock and what looks like a former very early version of a lighthouse are still intact there. I've no idea what the steamboat looked like and can find no photographs of it online, although the plantation is still very much still there and well preserved.
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