History, Timeline, Edisto Island, National Scenic Byway, ACE Basin ...
Timeline: Edisto Island History. 2000 B. C. Archaic cultures lived on the sea islands consuming shellfish and giving rise to shell middens. 1550s. Edistow Indians, one tribe of the Cusabo Indians, harvested seafood and grew crops. Spanish Jesuits established a mission to convert the Edistows along St. Pierre Creek but abandoned it within a year ...