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The 4,680-acre island includes a 5-bedroom main house and a caretaker’s cottage.
Looking for the ultimate South Carolina coastal getaway? Forget Hilton Head and look north just a few nautical miles. There you’ll find a pristine paradise fit for a king — of cable TV.
In fact, for the past 35 years, CNN founder Ted Turner has called St. Phillips Island off the coast near Beaufort his own, private Carolina getaway. It’s accessible only by boat and contains acres of white-sand beaches that front the Atlantic Ocean. For all these years, the island has been populated by no one else except Turner and the lucky friends and family he made a lot of memories with there.
Now, however, Turner said he is prepared to part with the island. With less time to enjoy the 4,680 acres of pure idyllic pleasure, Turner has listed the island for sale for $23.777 million.
In addition to beaches, ponds, marshes and more than 1,000 acres of uplands, the property includes a 5-bedroom main house that Turner had built after he bought the place in 1979, plus a caretaker’s house. The island has its own water and power supply, complete with generator.
Not everyone can afford their own island, but Turner has included a little enticement for potential buyers. With an easement from The Nature Conservancy that restricts use of the land, the island will largely remain undeveloped, no matter who might buy it. However, a provision allows for 10 additional dwellings.
“The value of the island is in the land, the natural maritime forests, the long white beaches, the location and the total privacy,” said Chip Hall of Plantation Services, Inc. “It is a place for a modern-day Robinson Crusoe.”
For Turner, the sale of the island would hardly leave him without places to hang his many hats. In addition to his pioneering work in television and his massive donation to the United Nations, Turner is the second-largest private landowner in North America with approximately 2 million acres of personal and ranch land.
Through Turner Enterprises, he manages the largest commercial bison herd (51,000) in North America on 15 ranches in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
Photos courtesy of Plantation Services, Inc.
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