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eDingsville BeaCh,
south Carolina
In pre-Civil War South Carolina,
Edingsville was a high-end resort
community with sixty houses, two
churches, and a tavern. The great Sea
Island Hurricane of 1893 destroyed
the houses, and subsequent erosion
and island migration reduced the is-
land to a narrow strip of sand less
than a hundred feet wide. The old vil-
lage, perhaps a harbinger, is now four
hundred meters (one-quarter mile)
offshore. Still, bits of brick, pottery
and nails from the village often wash
ashore in storms.
