Edisto Beach Park also has an environmental education center that highlights the island’s natural history and the surrounding ACE Basin. There are furnished cabins available at the park, as well as campsites near the ocean or in the maritime forest. For more information regarding accommodations, hours of operation, and admission please go here.

Edisto Beach State Park is located on the northernmost tip of the beach, just south of Botany Bay. The park was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the mid 1930s and was one of the first state parks constructed in South Carolina.

Mr. Bell retired in 2003 – the business was closed and the building was subsequently torn down to make room for condos and a parking lot. Anyone that ever visited Edisto Beach prior to 2003 would remember Bell Buoy Seafood, Mr. Bell, and his interesting collection of cars, fire engines, tractors, and fresh seafood right off the boat.

Many thanks to Brent Silman of Prosperity for this great description and picture that he took in 1998.

Edisto Island is named for the Edisto Indian Tribe, the area’s original inhabitants. Part of Edisto is in Colleton County, though the majority of the island is part of Charleston County.

SCIWAY thanks Pam Oerman of North Augusta for submitting this picture, which she took in July 2009.

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Photographer Adam Morris took this photo. His parents now own the Bailey House, which was built in 1799 – a prosperous year for planters on lowcountry sea islands. Soil and climate produced cotton that could be spun into the finest thread available at the time. Sea Island cotton was sought after throughout the world and commanded premium prices.

The house remained in the Bailey family for many generations, but Adam’s father says it was this grand and sprawling tree that convinced him to buy the property when he had the opportunity in 1984. Adam and his wife held their wedding reception under the oak’s canopy in 2003.

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