Neighborhoods
4 Rural McClellanville Real Estate Listings that Deserve a Look
April 30th, 2010 Buyers, Mouzons Bluff, Silver Hill Daniel Bates Comments
Today I have the pleasure of bringing you 4 W.P. Baldwin & Associates real estate listings of mine located in rural McClellanville. They are all just across Jeremy Creek from the Historic District in the peaceful Skipper’s Point community (map below). I’m talking dirt road, wooded, peaceful, country retreats and all still in the town limits and just 5 minutes to the restaurants and boat landing. There is something for everyone that appreciates rural living at it’s best.
514 Romain Road – $940,000
First up is a brand new listing just added this week. It’s a gorgeous 4 bedroom, 4 bath waterfront home with over 150 feet of frontage on Jeremy Creek and a large deep-water dock. It’s the prettiest lot in all of McClellanville with 4 massive live oaks on a spacious lot. The nearly 2800 square feet feel much more spacious with a very open floor plan that will accommodate any number of needs. I’ve been managing this house as a vacation rental for the last 3 years and would be happy to continue for new owner.
8 Mouzons Bluff – $69,500
Looking for an affordable lot to build you home in McClellanville? This lot is build-ready and is the cheapest 1+ acre lot in McClellanville town limits. Amazingly, it is also located in Mouzons Bluff community which entitles it to use of the future community dock on the Intracoastal Waterway and park on Otter Creek, just walking distance from this lot. Now that’s value!
22 Mouzons Bluff – $100,000
This is the lowest priced waterfront lot in the McClellanville and Awendaw real estate market. It’s 3/4 of an acre and has over 100 feet of frontage on Otter Creek. You can watch wildlife and launch a kayak from your own back yard. Just like 8 Mouzons Bluff, this lot will also have access to the future community dock on the Intracoastal Waterway. So for just $30k more you’re upgrading to waterfront!
3 Romain Road – $480,000
Waterfront lots are a commodity in McClellanville and this one is the lowest priced lot on deep-water in McClellanville. It has a view of the Intracoastal Waterway, Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge and the Cape Romain lighthouse. In addition to being on Jeremy Creek, this lot is also bounded on one side by Otter Creek. If you’ve been waiting for affordable waterfront property with immediate access to prime fishing and boating grounds, this is your chance.
Please feel free to call me for a private tour of any or all of these beautiful properties – Daniel Bates - 843-606-0622
Disclosure: Agent is Related to Seller of 3 Romain, 22 Mouzons Bluff, and 514 Romain
McClellanville Mother’s Day Wrap-up
May 10th, 2009 McClellanville Events, Neighborhoods Daniel Bates Comments
My Mother’s day in McClellanville was spent watching my little one to give mom a well deserved break. We wrapped up the day by going to the Town Hall to the “Mothers Who Love Puppies Benefit Concert” to benefit Helping Hand Animal Rescue & Rehab Therapy to hear Kathy Livingston (the one from Nature Adventures Outfitters) sing. She had a great voice, singing a great mix of kids songs, folk songs, beach songs, and contemporary and all of her record sales go to charity.
Ken Burger had a great article in the Post and Courier about being “Raised by a Hundred Mothers“, a feeling I can definitely relate to having grown up in McClellanville. I’ve written about the it-takes-a-village mentality before, but Burger puts it best with this line, “Looking back, there were truly super women. They worked full time, sang in the choir, volunteered at the school, taught us to dance, held our families together and somehow found time to raise a village full of children.”
The Post and Courier also reported on one of our own this weekend, St. James Santee Episcople Churches minister, Jennie Olbrych. I adore Jennie. She is an amazing woman who is passionate about God’s word and always willing to help members of the community despite not living in McClellanville. You can spot her in the videos on my most recent Shrimp Festival article as she has been responsible for blessing the fleet the past few years…come rain or shine.
Finally, I’d be remiss to not take a moment to acknowledge the two mom’s that make my everyday life possible. My Mom, Susan Bates, lives just around the corner from me. I can literally see her house through the woods (do I get credit for not being a momma’s boy if I told you that I lived away from home for 8 years?). My mom is a strong, confident, and beautiful woman. My wife and I both have a great relationship with her (and my dad) and eat dinner with them almost every week (Thursday’s are Survivor night at the Bates house). She’s also been a Godsend the past two years watching our son while we work and even allowing the occasional date night and I’m so happy he has someone like her to take him out in the garden, tromping in the woods, and crabbing.
My wife, Josie is my rock! We were friends before dating and as a result know each other very well and compliment each others weaknesses. She is an amazing mother with the perfect amount of discipline and love for our son. She keeps me grounded but always supports me a rare thing to find. She works hard and always has a smile on her beautiful face. I definitely couldn’t do all the things I do without the help from these two great women and I often call upon them to review my articles, so my website wouldn’t be the same without them either.
PS – Charleston Painter, Katherine Muschick, wrote a great article about the McClellanville Arts Council’s Youth Art Show, so please check that out and leave a comment on her site. Congratulations to the great local artists as well!
McClellanville Neighborhood Spotlight: Historic District
July 18th, 2008 Neighborhoods Comments
The historic district is McClellanville’s largest, most populated, and best known neighborhood. It is obviously named so because of it’s age and prevalent historic homes. Here, on the north eastern side of Jeremy Creek, McClellanville grew from a single plantation as streets, homes, and stores filled in under the old oak trees. Many people mistakenly think that it’s all there is to McClellanville, missing the turn off for Silver Hill and Skipper’s Point. Nonetheless, Historic District property carries the highest pricetags because of the high demand and relatively low turnover. Land is also less available here than in other more rural areas.
There are over a hundred homes, businesses, and churches predating 1935 in the historic district. The national historic registry has pictures and more information about many of them on their website .
New construction and home remodeling must be approved by an Architectural Review Board (ARB) to ensure that homes stay in keeping with the style of the rest of the Historic District. Zoning allows for new lots to be no smaller than 3/4 of an acre (1 acre for the rest of McClellanville), though many smaller lots were grandfathered in when the rule was created.
In the center of the Historic District on Pinckney Street is McClellanville’s quaint “downtown business districtâ€, which consists of two restaurants, a handful of boutiques and artist studios, and our real estate office. Residents treat these local restaurants as social gathering places and catch up with friends and family dining on local seafood along side the weekend tourists.
Live oak lined streets are characteristic of the Historic District and the landmark Deerhead Oak stands above them all. Near the end of Pinckney Street lies the boat landing, Town Hall, Village Museum and playground. It is the site of the towns annual Shrimp Festival and many other public gatherings.
The Historic District is also home to the marina and the docks on Oak Street are where most of the shrimp boats dock and unload there fresh haul directly to the seafood markets.
There is obviously a lot going on in the Historic District, but above all is the community, which you can’t necessarily describe but you get a sense of it from the children riding bicycles and smiling faces and waves you get from passing pedestrians.
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