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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Beaufort. Associated ZIP codes: 29925, 29926, 29928, 29938.
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Holly Jenkins, 69, was killed by a 10-foot alligator while walking her dog near her home on the South Carolina island on July 4, 2023.
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Tree lighting events are being planned across the region, including Richmond Hill, Bluffton and Beaufort, with more still to come.
Before his sudden death, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham stopped in Bluffton and Beaufort as he sought reelection. Here's what he said at the time.
Lowcountry Indivisible hosted the runoff candidate forum at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry.
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Tuesday’s midterm elections ushered in a historic blue wave across the United States, with Democrats picking up seats even in historically conservative sta...
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Times Square became an ad showcasing what South Carolina has to offer for visitors. The state spent nearly $1.5 million on the campaign and here’s what the...
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Hilton Head Island is in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
Region: South Carolina
29925, 29926, 29928, 29938
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Tuesday’s midterm elections ushered in a historic blue wave across the United States, with Democrats picking up seats even in historically conservative sta...
A South Carolina father is accused of leaving his young daughter alone in the middle of the night outside a Target store amid a crowd waiting to buy Pokémon...
Times Square became an ad showcasing what South Carolina has to offer for visitors. The state spent nearly $1.5 million on the campaign and here’s what the...
The Sea Pines shell ring, 150 feet across and believed to be more than 4,000 years old, is thought to have been a refuse heap built by Indigenous people who lived inside it and kept its center clear as a common area. It is one of at least 50 known shell rings, and with the Green's Shell Enclosure and Skull Creek rings it is protected on the National Register. The waters around the island were later claimed and fought over by the English, Spanish, French and Scots. A Spanish expedition under Francisco Cordillo explored the area in 1521, and in 1663 Captain William Hilton, sailing from Barbados, named a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound Hilton's Head after himself.
In 1698 the island was granted as part of a barony to John Bayley of County Tipperary, Ireland, and was known for a time as Trench's Island, after his agent Alexander Trench. In the mid-1740s the provincial galley Beaufort guarded the island's southern tip against the Spanish, and Braddock Point is named for its commander, Captain David Cutler Braddock. The island's few Revolutionary-era farmers were Loyalists. In 1790 William Elliott II grew South Carolina's first crop of Sea Island cotton there, and the Baynard Mausoleum of 1846 is the island's oldest intact structure. In the Civil War, Confederate Fort Walker guarded Port Royal Sound until November 7, 1861, when it fell to more than 12,000 Union troops after the largest fleet yet assembled in North America attacked in the Battle of Port Royal. The island became a major base for the Union blockade of Savannah and Charleston, and the Union commander of the Department of the South, headquartered there, declared the enslaved people of the region free citizens. Sources Wikipedia: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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