“ An incredibly important site. How archaeologists date Hilton Head Island’s oldest structure.”By Jessica Wade (jwade@postandcourier.com)

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — A peculiar building sits beside a busy road on the eastern edge of Hilton Head Island. Its modern roof was built atop centuries-old walls. Its wide, open door frame and windows face Skull Creek, allowing a breeze to drift through the quiet interior.  The structure is made of traditional tabby — a mixture of lime, water, sand, oyster shells and ash. It's a hardy, cement-like material that has stood through the American Revolution, Civil War and an onslaught of developers who marched across the island in recent decades. Now called the Barnwell Tabby, archaeological researchers estimate it was constructed around 1765, making it Hilton Head Island's oldest structure. The fact that it is still in the hands of a native islander adds to its rarity. To read more, click on the following link--