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Even though it has been over nineteen years, the locale that served as the setting for the classic baby boomer film, The Gigantic Chill, continues to bring in folks craving a connection to the past and the assurance found only in township like Beaufort, South Carolina. Beaufort property is on pace to grow alongside with Charleston real estate thanks to the renown of pictures filmed in this armed forces urban center. Their are a lot of people who do not notice how many movies are really filmed in Beaufort county. The low country of South Carolina is a film mecca and a Hollywood darling.
The magnetic draw the city has on folks explains why Beaufort County is already home to more folk of retirement age than any other county in South Carolina. About 12 percent of the total population in the tidal county is over 65, and that number is continuously rising. With golf courses, beaches, and slow pace makes this a perfect place to live.
Between the mild year-round climate, beautiful historic setting and easy-going small-town Southern way of living, the draw to the area is obvious to all. Beaufort is a lovely and accommodating place that the motion picture industr have chosen it as its first choice as the archetypal Southern town. As well as the pivotal role Beaufort played in a role in the flicks The Big Chill, Great Santini, and G.I. Jane. The town's historic buildings and scenic backdrops were used in exterior shots in The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, G.I. Jane and Forrest Gump. Folks are drawn towards the beauty but find that Beaufort is more than just a pretty face.
Folk are drawn to the coast but find that town of Beaufort is more than only a beautiful face. Long known as a sportsman's heaven, Beaufort offers first class sailing and fishing, is in a convenient position to world-class golf courses and has some of the perfect hiking in the low country at Huntington Island State Park. For those more inclined to tourist area, Charleston, Savannah and Hilton Head are a short drive away, and resorts can be reached in a little more than an hour as the most distant.
The township's rich history dates back more than half a millennium to adventurer Christopher Columbus. Tabby ruins of Spanish searchers and the remainder of armaments lofted later to protect early English colonists against the Spanish can be discovered among the area's marshes, tidal pools and freshwater creeks.
Beaufort is surrounded by farms, a military base, plantation grounds as many of which still stand unyieldingly more than one hundred and thirty nine years after Sherman's troops burned a lot of the South to the ground nearly the end of the Civil War. Beaufort's downtown area falls beneath strict preservation guiding principles to maintain the gravitas and integrity of the antebellum mansions that grace its narrow streets. The historic district is one of only four national historic landmark areas in South Carolina.
The magnetic draw the city has on folks explains why Beaufort County is already home to more folk of retirement age than any other county in South Carolina. About 12 percent of the total population in the tidal county is over 65, and that number is continuously rising. With golf courses, beaches, and slow pace makes this a perfect place to live.
Between the mild year-round climate, beautiful historic setting and easy-going small-town Southern way of living, the draw to the area is obvious to all. Beaufort is a lovely and accommodating place that the motion picture industr have chosen it as its first choice as the archetypal Southern town. As well as the pivotal role Beaufort played in a role in the flicks The Big Chill, Great Santini, and G.I. Jane. The town's historic buildings and scenic backdrops were used in exterior shots in The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, G.I. Jane and Forrest Gump. Folks are drawn towards the beauty but find that Beaufort is more than just a pretty face.
Folk are drawn to the coast but find that town of Beaufort is more than only a beautiful face. Long known as a sportsman's heaven, Beaufort offers first class sailing and fishing, is in a convenient position to world-class golf courses and has some of the perfect hiking in the low country at Huntington Island State Park. For those more inclined to tourist area, Charleston, Savannah and Hilton Head are a short drive away, and resorts can be reached in a little more than an hour as the most distant.
The township's rich history dates back more than half a millennium to adventurer Christopher Columbus. Tabby ruins of Spanish searchers and the remainder of armaments lofted later to protect early English colonists against the Spanish can be discovered among the area's marshes, tidal pools and freshwater creeks.
Beaufort is surrounded by farms, a military base, plantation grounds as many of which still stand unyieldingly more than one hundred and thirty nine years after Sherman's troops burned a lot of the South to the ground nearly the end of the Civil War. Beaufort's downtown area falls beneath strict preservation guiding principles to maintain the gravitas and integrity of the antebellum mansions that grace its narrow streets. The historic district is one of only four national historic landmark areas in South Carolina.
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