Port Royal Plantation
Where Captain William Hiton first landed in 1663 to lead to the British
settlement of the island is now Port Royal Plantation, also the site of
historyic Fort Walker, a station for Confederate troops during the Civial War
until the Union troops invaded in 1861, and the Union Army's Fort
Sherman.
Port Royal is now famous for its peaceful and preserved natural
environment and plentiful additions. It lies at the "heel" of Hilton Head
Island, within reach of an estimated twelve miles of beach where Port Royal
Sound joins the Atlantic Ocean. The plantation is the island's only completely
private seaside residential neighborhood, outside its gates lies the Westin
Resort, located on twenty-four primarily oceanfront acres of Port Royal. The
resort offers privileges at the plantation's three eighteen-hole golf courses,
two championship croquet cours, and a sixteen-court racquet
club.
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