Plantation
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information
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Villa
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Golf Courses
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Yds/Reg |
Phone #
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4-5
6
7-8
9
10
11
12
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Country
Club of Hilton Head
Oyster Reef Golf Club
Palmetto Hall/ Robert Cupp
Palmetto Hall/ Arthur Hills
Port Royal Plantation/ Barony
Port Royal Plantation/ Planter's Row
Port Royal Plantation/ Robber's Row
Indigo Run/ Golden Bear
Palmetto Dunes/ Robert Trent Jones
Palmetto Dunes/ George Fazio
Palmetto Dunes/ Arthur Hills
Shipyard Plantation
Sea Pines - Ocean
Sea Pines - Sea Marsh
Sea Pines - Harbourtown Golf Links |
6543
6071
6042
6257
5962
5920
6017
6643
6148
6239
6257
6167
6172
6169
6040
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681-4653
681-7717
689-4100
689-4100
689-4653
689-4653
689-4653
689-2200
785-1138
785-1130
689-4100
689-4653
363-4475
363-4475
363-4485
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Tennis Courses
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Port Royal Racquet Club
Hilton Head Island Beach & Tennis
Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center
Van Der Meer
Sea Pines Racquet Club
South Beach Racquet Club
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686-8803
785-6613
785-1152
686-8804
363-4495
671-2215
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Hilton
Head Island
Average Weather
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Month
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Average
Temperature
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Average
Ocean Temperature
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January
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59
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52
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February
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61
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54
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March
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67
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59
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April
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76
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67
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May
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82
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75
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June
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86
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82
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July
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89
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84
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August
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89
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84
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September
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84
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80
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October
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77
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73
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November
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69
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63
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December
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61
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54
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Information taken from NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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More
fliers are choosing Hilton Head Island Airport
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Hilton
Head Island Airport experienced its busiest summer since 1999 this
year, joining a worldwide trend of increased air travel.
About 93,152 passengers flew into or out of the island airport on
commercial planes between April and August, easily topping the 61,643
figure for the same period last year.
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The increase
was spurred by Delta Air Lines adding daily service between
the island and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
in March, said Paul Andres, island airport director.
Originally, Delta said it would fly three flights per day
only during the summer months -- that expanded to four daily
flights in June. And there's no intention of dropping the
service during the offseason, said Susan Elliott, Delta spokeswoman.
"It's going to be a year-round market for us," Elliott
said.
For competitive
reasons, Delta doesn't discuss performance of individual routes,
but Elliott did say "the route is currently meeting our
expectations."
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The competition
didn't seem to affect US Airways, which was the airport's only commercial
carrier since 1995 before Delta came aboard this year. The airline
currently has eight daily flights to its hub at Charlotte Douglas
International Airport, but flew more during the peak summer months,
said Michelle Mohr, spokeswoman for the airline.
"We are very pleased with our performance to Hilton Head and
very happy with the airport there," Mohr said.
But Hilton Head wasn't unique among US Airways' routes this summer.
Across the airline industry, the percentage of occupied seats was
at record levels, Mohr said.
The International Air Transport Association, which includes airlines
representing more than 94 percent of the international scheduled air
traffic, said passenger demand for seats was up 6.2 percent in the
first seven months of the year compared to 2006. The percentage of
occupied seats has risen every month, except April 2007, in the past
two years, the association said.
Greg Buchheit, a frequent traveler between Louisville, Ky., and the
island, said the airport has been a bit more crowded the past few
times he's flown in.
Even with full planes coming and going, Buchheit, who owns real estate
on the island and flies in a few times a year, isn't going to change
his travel plans.
"It's still a hundred times easier than any other airport,"
he said.
Jillian Curly, flying back to England with her husband Friday, said
the island airport had an advantage over the Savannah/Hilton Head
International Airport -- its location.
"We're only 10 to 15 minutes from our house," Curly said
of the airport's proximity to her vacation home. "After a very
long flight, you don't want to have a very long journey by car."
Even with two commercial carriers and nearly 100,000 people moving
through the airport this summer, airport director Andres said, the
customers' experience shouldn't be much different.
"We're perfectly capable of handling what we are producing right
now," Andres said.
Source: The Island Packet September 18, 2007 by Jim Faber
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Hilton
Head Island
Marinas and Harbors
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Marina
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Phone
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South
Beach Marina
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843-671-6699
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Harbour
Town Yacht Basin
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843-671-2704
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Palmetto
Bay Marina
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843-785-3910
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Broad
Creek Marina
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843-681-3625
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Shelter
Cove Marina
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843-842-7001
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Hilton
Head Boathouse
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843-681-2628
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Skull
Creek Marina
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843-681-8436
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Outdoor
Resorts Yacht Club
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843-681-3256
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Windmill
Harbour Marina
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843-681-9235
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Pinckney
Island Public Boat Ramp
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A
Brief History of
Hilton Head Island
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Head is an Atlantic barrier island with a history of human habitation
that goes back to at least 10,000 BC. It takes its name from William
Hilton, an English sea captain who surveyed the island and claimed
it for the crown in 1663.
Colonization
began in the late 17th century when threats from Spaniards and Indians
began to recede. The island was used as a plantation and hunting
site during the colonial period, with indigo and rice as the main
crops.
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After
the Revolution, American planters discovered that Sea Island
long-staple cotton grew well here, and local cotton crops
contributed greatly to the Lowcountry's boom years before
the Civil War. Following the Battle of Port Royal Sound in
November 1861 - known locally as "The Day of the Big
Gun Shoot" - the planters abandoned their gracious homes
and prolific crops and fled inland, and Union troops occupied
the island.
Left behind
were the slaves who had been responsible for bringing in the
labor-intensive crops of the plantation era. After the Emancipation
Proclamation and the end of the war, they and their descendants
took possession of much of the land, beginning a life of isolated
subsistence farming and seafood harvesting that allowed preservation
of their historic Gullah culture.
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recently as 1950, only about 500 people lived on Hilton Head,
but all that was about to change. The "modern" history
of the island is often traced to 1948, when a Georgia timber
man named Fred Hack first saw its fine stands of pine and oak
trees.
Hack and
his partners began to buy large tracts of Hilton Head property,
much of which had come into possession of Northern sportsmen
beginning in the late 1800s. Their purchases included land
which we know today as Hilton Head, Palmetto Hall, Port Royal,
Shipyard and Spanish Wells plantations, as well as Indigo
Run, Long Cove, Wexford, and other properties.
The environmentally conscious, "plantation-style"
development style we have come to associate with Hilton Head
Island is traced to Charles Fraser, son of one of Hack's original
partners. During the 1950s, Fraser had the inspiration to
create a resort community that would preserve the island's
natural beauty, and the result was Sea Pines, the first planned
island community and the model for what would follow.
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The
first bridge was built in 1956, and Hilton Head's historic isolation
was ended. All the pieces were in place for the island's climate,
beauty and beaches to combine with Fraser's vision to create
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