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The Sea Pines Resort company history timeline

1957

On June 20, 1957, the Sea Pines Plantation Company was incorporated.

1958

1958 - Palmetto Bay Marina opened.

1958 - First deed to a lot in Sea Pines Plantation was signed.

1960

The first Hilton Head office did not open until 1960.

1961

1961 - The McIntosh family subdivided 360 acres of The Hilton Head Company to start Spanish Wells.

1965

1965 - The Sea Pines Medical Center was built.

1965 - Hilton Head Island had its first rural mail route established.

1967

1967 - The Hilton Head Airport opened.

1967 - Sea Pines Plantation installed the island's first gates.

1968

Light joined the company in 1968, fresh out of the Harvard Business School, as Mr.

1969

Since that first Heritage Classic Golf Tournament in 1969, attendance has grown to more than 100,000.

1970

Charles and Joseph Fraser of the Sea Pines’ founding family filed legal covenants in 1970 dedicating the 606 acres in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve as a Wildlife Habitat and Outdoor Recreation Facility.

1970 - The Hilton Head Company started Shipyard Plantation.

1970 - Island Packet newspaper was first published.

1971

1971 - Sea Pines acquired land on the north end of the island, which was developed into Hilton Head Plantation.

1973

Stephens, the former Jones & Laughlin chairman and current president of the Association of Sea Pines Plantation Property Owners Inc., a group formed in March, 1973.

By 1973, Sea Pines had nine projects going in the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

1974

1974 - The swing-bridge was struck by a barge which force island residents to travel off the island on a pontoon bridge constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

When real estate sales in the United States leveled off and then froze during the deepening recession of 1974’ —the financing of both the land acquisitions and the resort was endangered.

1975

1975 -Hilton Head Hospital was completed.

Sea Pines cost $23.5 ??? in fiscal 1975 and when the latest year's figures are finally audited they will probably show a loss of about $18 million.

1979

1979 - Hurricane David missed the island, but high winds left beached eroded and destroyed several Singleton Beach homes.

1982

1982 - A four-lane bridge was built to replace the two-lane swing-bridge to the island.

1982 - Wexford Plantation and Long Cove Club were developed.

In 1982, Vacation Resorts, owned by Heizer Corp., paid $10 million for the company.

1983

Incorporated as a town in 1983, Hilton Head Island is home to more than 40,000 residents who live year-round in our renowned environmentally planned resort and residential communities.

1986

In 1986, Sea Pines declared involuntary bankruptcy.

1989

1989 - Adopted Road Impact Fee Program, first in the state.

1989 - The concept of a Cross Island Parkway is approved.

1991

1991 - The Growth Management Task Force is created.

1992

1992 - The Municipal Court is created.

1993

1993 - The Beach Preservation Fee is adopted and is the first dedicated local funding source for beach renourishment in the state.

1994

1994 - Pembroke Drive (partnership with Indigo Run) completed.

1997

1997 - Town annexed a portion of Jenkins Island.

1997 - Atlantic Shorefront Fill Project (including Port Royal). 1997 - Paving of Leg O' Mutton Road and Jonesville Road.

1999

1999 - South Beach Fill Renourishment Project.

2000

2000 - Opened new Fire Station #3 at 534 William Hilton Parkway.

2003

2003 - Opened new Fire Station #7 at 1001 Marshland Road.

2004

2004 - Even-year elections for the Mayor and Town Council are adopted.

2004 - Powerline burial project began.

2005

In March 2005, the Riverstone Group purchased Sea Pines.

2006

2006 - Atlantic Shorefront Fill Project.

2007

2007 - Pope Avenue pathway and boardwalks built.

2007 - Office Park Road Realignment.

2011

2011 - Port Royal Sound Shoreline Rehabilitation completed.

2012

2012 - Major changes to streamline the LMO permitting process.

2012 - The Town's Fire & Rescue received the Heart Safe Community Award from the International Fire Chief's Association.

2013

2013 -Town celebrates its 30th Anniversary of Incorporation.

2013 - The Economic Development Corporation is created.

2013 - Construction on new Fire Station #6 at the entrance to Palmetto Dune began.

2021

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