Welcome to the Linton Villa at Pawleys Plantation Resort, situated in the beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry on Pawleys Island, SC. Built on the grounds of a former rice plantation, the resort is located on South Carolina's Grand Strand, a sweep of magnificent beaches and wildlife areas between Charleston and Myrtle Beach, SC. Pawleys island claims to be the oldest resort area in America. Whether or not that's true, early vacationers were distinguished. South Carolina Lowcountry was home to the most affluent planters on the continent. They didn't grow tobacco, or even cotton. Rice and indigo (used for a blue dye) were the crops of choice. To excape the heat and malaria of their mainland plantations, the rice royalty moved their families to cottages on Pawleys Island for the summer. Remarkably, some of the cottages are still in use. Nine of them comprise the Pawleys Island "Historic District". The rest of the narrow island barely keeps some 600 houses (no stores) out of the water. They are used, just as in the planters´ days, mostly by summer dwellers. Pawleys Plantation Resort is a gated community surrounding a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, and is just a five minute drive from the beach. The screened porch and adjacent patio of the Linton Villa overlook the 9th hole of the golf course. The Villa itself is the perfect place for a relaxing vacation with all of the amenities you would expect from an exceptional resort.