Sea Pines Company

The Sea Pines Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryReal estate development
FoundedJune 20, 1957
FounderGeneral Joseph Bacon Fraser, Charles E. Fraser, Joseph B Fraser Jr.
Defunct1986
FateInvoluntary Bankruptcy
SuccessorSea Pines Association
Headquarters,
U.S.

The Sea Pines Company was a real estate development group founded by General Joseph Bacon Fraser, Charles E. Fraser, and Joseph B. Fraser Jr. In 1956. It developed Sea Pines Plantation, Amelia Island Plantation, Brandermill (Virginia), Kiawah Island, Palmas Del Mar (Puerto Rico), Hilton Head Plantation, Wintergreen Resort and more. It was successful in the 1960s but hit hard by 1972-1974 recession. It was sold in 1983.