Hilton Head
William Elliott II of Myrtle Bank Plantation grew the first crop of Sea Island Cotton http://www.hiltonhead.tv/ in South Carolina on Hilton Head Island in 1790.
On August 27, 1893, the Sea Islands Hurricane made landfall near Savannah, Georgia with a storm surge of 16 feet (5 m) and swept north across South Carolina, killing over a thousand and leaving tens of thousands homeless.