The original Post Office and General store in downtown Seabrook

Seabrook is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) located in Beaufort County,

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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,255. Situated in northern part of the county along the Whale Branch River, Seabrook was founded in the late 18th century as a collection of plantations became established in the area. In the late 19th century, Seabrook became a stop on the Port Royal and Augusta Railway and featured a small, but bustling downtown area that had a federal Post Office, a general store, a gas station, and a train station. The local economy was driven by the nearby farmland. The village's old economy and markets have since yielded to development in Beaufort, though the Post Office remains to serve the village's remaining inhabitants. In the past ten years, three new public schools have opened in the Seabrook area to serve area students, including

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. The McLeod Farmstead was listed on the

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in 1997.

Demographics

2020 census

References

Sources

*http://www.seabrookpoint.com/ *http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/US.Post.Office.843-846-2775 *http://www.beaufortsc.org/military/marine-corps-air-station-beaufort.stml *http://beauforttribune.com/archives/56671 Hilton Head Island–Beaufort micropolitan area Unincorporated communities in Beaufort County, South Carolina Unincorporated communities in South Carolina Census-designated places in Beaufort County, South Carolina Census-designated places in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-geo-stub