Port Royal Plantation Amenities
Overview
The Port Royal Plantation Club offers private memberships. Memberships include access to the three golf courses, the croquet club, tennis courts, and social events. Four individual membership packages are available for interested residents.
The Southern-style clubhouse complex, called the Port Royal Plantation Club, has swimming and recreation facilities with picnic areas, fine dining, freshwater and saltwater fishing, swimming pools, bike and jogging paths, and a playground. For nature lovers, the Arboretum contains walking paths along which numerous species of plants and birds can be identified.
Beach House
Port Royal’s Beach House, with its convenient catering service and spacious size, can be reserved by members for inter-plantation events. The nearby beaches were renourished in 1997 and border both the Atlantic and the Sound.
An Olympic-sized swimming pool is situated next door, as is a 1.5-foot-deep baby pool. No lifeguards are on duty, but a playground is available for those who wish to play instead of swim.
Historic Landmarks
Port Royal Plantation has several historic sites as landmarks of the Civil War:
-Fort Walker, established by the Confederate Army after South Carolina seceded from the Union in 1861, was later renamed Fort Welles after its capture and expansion. Traces remain and historical explanations are provided on adjacent markers.
Also, Fort Sherman (built in 1864 after the capture of Fort Walker) has two entrances that provide surveillance of the now-foliage-covered walls.
About 200 yards north of those remains lie the ruins of Battery Dynamite, a battery constructed to hold one of Edmund Zalinski's dynamite guns, from around 1901.
The Steam Gun, remains of a large cannon operated by pressurized air, was built at the beginning of the 20th century in order to defend the coastline and parts are still visible for the public eye.
