A Little Info on Sullivan’s Island, SC
Posted on | June 26, 2008 | No Comments
If you aren’t familiar with Sullivan’s Island, and you are considering looking for real estate at the beach in Charleston, then you must consider Sullivan’s.
It is a historic island with beautiful old beach houses and quite a few new ones, too. It has one of the best schools the area has to offer, Sullivan’s Island Elementary. (You can compare area schools at www.greatschools.net). There are great restaurants and nightlife, and some of the best beaches in the country, all within walking distance. Plus, it has a great, small town community feel. It is directly across the Charleston harbor from Fort Sumter. Sullivan’s Island is home to Fort Moultrie; it is between these two forts that the first shots of the Civil War were fired. The island was originally called Atlanticville (hence the name of the restaurant), as it sits between the Atlantic Ocean and Charleston. I would guess there are homes there as old as the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. There is a great old lighthouse down by the Fort; the light shined in my bedroom window at night growing up. There are lots of old batteries and bunkers on the island, and legend has it that they are all connected underground. Edgar Allen Poe was stationed there for a while, and it is said that is was there that he wrote The Goldbug, which is his famous story about a buried treasure (said to be in present day Wild Dunes).
I grew up on Sullivan’s Island, and when I was a kid, we played at the park across the street every single afternoon. They always had, and still do have, a wonderful Fourth of July celebration at the park with one of the best fireworks displays in town. That’s saying a lot, because we really like fireworks here in Charleston. Poe’s Tavern, formerly Doghouse Grrille, is where I met my husband.
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