Beaufort County

Austin, Rigley and I are camped out at Hunting Island State Park. We have been here four different times and always love it.  Rigley especially likes having a beach just feet from him back door.  Every day we take long walks looking for sharks teeth and whatever else we can find on the beautiful hard pack sand beach.

 

Beaufort South Carolina is a lovely little city. We always enjoy walking  the Historic neighborhoods, looking at all the homes and giant trees draped with Spanish moss.  Many of the homes in the Historic District date to the antebellum period, 1840s and 1850s

Milton Maxey House (Secession House) ca. 1813

The Thomas Hepworth House ca. 1717, the oldest house in Beaufort

 

Also visited the cemetery at St. Helena’s  Episcopal Church.  Construction of the church began in 1724. Used as a hospital during the Civil War and it’s flat tombstones became operating tables.

St. Helena Church

 

 

Diane and Austin

We enjoyed lunch at "Q on the Bay".  This restaurant was had indoor seating along with a covered patio area on the river walk that allowed Rigley to join us.  Found this spot while walking the business area, window shopping and antiquing.  It is also found on the BBQ Trail map.

 

 

Not far from basecamp , on St. Helena Island we found plenty to explore. Today I will just mention

The Chapel of Ease built about 1740, to serve planters in St. Helena Parish who lived at great distances from the parish in Beaufort.  It was made a separate church after the revolution, and  burned by

forest fire Feb. 22,1886.

The Chapel of Ease

 

 

The Haunting: A number of creepy legends surround Beaufort County’s chapel of ease. Visitors have heard prayers and hymns emanating from the abandoned church, while disembodied voices reportedly call out from nearby woods. Some visitors have even seen a woman in white strolling about the old cemetery, a child in her arms. However, the most famous story involves the chapel’s vandalized mausoleum.

www.ghostnghouls.com/chapelofease