He Built Beautiful Hilton Head Island South Carolina. See The Results
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2023
- In 1988 I was making documentaries for Turner Broadcasting Company. Ted Turner had conceived a series called Portraits of America where documentary filmmakers like me got the chance to record hour-long prime time television stories about each state. My team and I were assigned South Carolina and decided that one of the episodes should tell the story of Hilton Head, South Carolina and captures the feelings of its founder, Charles Frazier.
Hilton Head Island is famous for its incredible Atlantic Ocean beaches and world-class golf courses. It's regularly voted one of the best vacation destinations in the world. Between the island and mainland the Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge salt marsh hosts deer, alligators and an incredible variety of birds.
This video includes an interview with Charles Frazier. In 1956, Fraser, son of one of the families that owned most of the Island, realized that Hilton Head Island had more to offer than just timber. Armed with vision, energy, modern air conditioning and investment dollars, he created a master plan for a resort community.
Today Hilton Head remains extraordinarily popular with a robust real estate market that has a high demand for properties, particularly during peak vacation seasons. The island also has a strong economy and low unemployment rate which provides stability to the local real estate market.
So many companies currently provide services including Wheelz Hilton Head, Hilton Head realtors, Disney Vacation Club Hilton Head, vacation rental organizations like Shorewood Villas and Villamare as well as a unique & fascinating Coastal Discovery Museum.
Hilton Head's housing expenses are 15% higher than the national average and the utility prices are 6% higher than the national average. Transportation expenses like bus fares and gas prices are 10% lower than the national average. However Hilton Head Island contains both very wealthy and poor people as residents.
No question Hilton Head is one of the best places to retire with gated communities, beachfront villas and luxury homes to choose from. But it's far more than a retirement community beneath a beautifully-preserved tree canopy. It's also a world-class golf destination, a biker's paradise, and a beach comber's dream.
If I didn't live in beautiful California, I wouldn't mind at all going back to Hilton Head and experiencing again the wonderful time I had there back in the late 1980s.
My husband and I lived in Augusta, Georgia for four years. That was many years ago when my husband was in the military. I worked full-time and observed that my co-workers with money vacationed at Hilton Head and average folk went to Myrtle Beach.
Vacationed there every summer in the 70's when I was a kid. Every year more expensive, more crowded, more golf courses, less nature, less native people, more trash, big condos, less single family homes, no more flea markets or tiny family grocery stores. It's a big, shiny, expensive golf course with no charm at all.
"Beautiful! Now I shall ruin it."
I can say as a Gullah native from Hilton Head Island, they failed miserably, in preserving the beauty of the island and the culture of the original inhabitants.
THANK YOU!
Truth
Preach! The modern Hilton Head Island was built by stealing and tricking native Gullah people out of their lands in the past and taxing their descendants that currently live their on heirs property out of their land now. The average Northerner who vacation or decides to move or retire to Hilton Head don't care about its native Islander residents or its history.
And that would be native Americans before the Gullah squatted on their land. OTOH any humanoid is a usurper as the gators were there first. Take your pick to b***h about I guess.
^^^this is the truth of what has happened in Georgia and SC
I bet it was more beautiful in its original natural state
I agree man might add amenities but can never improve on the perfection of creation.
Infinity!!!
Agree. But people have to live somewhere
Yes it was
Howdy neighbor! Just ran into you I was in the red car! Cool to finally kinda meet you in our town! Cheers from Van Ness Avenue!
Cheers to you as well and thank you for the compliment. I much appreciated running across to you as I was doing my daily exercise. Not easy but I keep going.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Looks like just another rich mans paradise to me.
I wrote a paper once on Hilton Head during the Civil War. I always wanted to visit.
I am impressed you were alive during the Civil War and chose to write about Hilton Head, a fine destination
@@RAEckart22 lololol
I grew up there. Too phony and pretentious for me.
I can believe that. I don't enjoy being around pretentious people. My brothers are very successful in their careers, but if they started getting attitudes, we would have a problem. We grew up living week to week, and I think it has helped us to stay humble.
Daufuskie Island now looks like Hilton Head Island used to be, with lush green forests from the centre of the island to the sea, houses sparsely dotted around the island and the natural beauty still there
Love this stuff Mr Hoffman 👍
I loved going to Hilton Head for summer as a kid!
He stole the lane from the geechie they say
We have been going there on beach vacations for over 30 years now. There has been much growth in that time but it seems to have been well controlled & regulated. On our most recent trip we met people that have been going there since the bridge was wooden and the Main Street (US 278) was almost completely a dirt road. They weren't even familiar with the place we were staying and this had been their first time in that community. FLY NAVY!!!
Thanks to Charles and his Sea Pines Company for Kiawah Island. This treasure has been developed more or less in line with his vision.
It has me wondering how it fared during the hurricanes?
Wherever you set up camp, you're battling something.
In the 80’s my parents would rent there in the summer. Was beautiful and just sparse with tourists. Interesting fact, Hilton Head has the densest bobcat population in the world as it’s isolated from legal deer hunting land and fawn are their staple.
So your saying David Hoffman you have live there at one time. That sounds pretty cool if it not that expensive it'll be ok to try it. I'm going to watch the video and see what he says lol. Thanks for sharing this video David Film maker 🎥🎞️🙂
I never lived there Matthew. At the time when I made this film, I lived in Maine. In fact, I was only there for one week during the filming.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker ok I see thanks David
I live in Charleston and head there at least once a year
In Hilton Head all the businesses have beige signs, even Walmart, and there are no tall signs, even McDonald’s.
Never realized how bad those signs make a place look until I saw Hilton Head. I’d love to see more if there is more
kicking out the gullah geechee: did the gullah geechee want polo fields and golf course?
I enjoyed my visit the only problem was the resort that was promoting there villa did'nt put you up at there villa they house you in a hotel and that don't give you the opportunity to experience the villa !
Hilton head.... $$$$$$$$$$$$
Islander in 1975.
Highway 278 was a 2 lane highway. No traffic lights and no stop lights. 😃
Yet more stolen land. And I bet the place is snobby as ever to this day.
All stolen land it’s a shame
He RUINED it... Just what he said .. he was not able to keep out the RAMPANT UGLINESS...
Laborers built it, not him lol
This is bs The Gullah people was here way before a Charles Frazier tell the truth and shame the devil
And the Gullah people were squatters on native American land. Native Americans usurped the natural maritime forest and alligator habitat and so on. Oh, there's so much to complain about.