Daniel Island
July 21, 2018
Check out one of our beautiful trips over to Daniel Island. Daniel Island is a master-planned community spanning the full island with plenty of shops, restaurants, history and walking trails! Daniel Island, built on the grounds of Daniel Plantation (owned by Robert Daniel):
Our namesake is Robert Daniell (1646-1718), who was a captain of ships that travelled between Bermuda, Barbados and Charles Towne (Charleston after 1783). Our island was first called Etiwan Island (or Ittiwan Island), after the local tribe of Native Americans that occupied these 4,000 acres when the English settled at what is today Charles Towne Landing in 1670.
Robert Daniell’s first acquisition of land on Daniel Island was in 1696. These 972 acres were located on the southern side of the Island. He built a substantial house along the Wando River, close to what is now called Raven’s Creek. Like all of the first owners on the island, he lived both in the island house and in a Charles Towne home.
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