Originally known as Hunting Island and then between the mid-18th century and 1898 as Long Island, the Isle of Palms served for many years as a place of refuge and recreation and, during the American Revolution, as a staging area for troops. In fact, Breach Inlet at the west end of the island derives its name from an event in 1776, when Sir Henry Clinton’s British troops landed on Long Island and attempted to cross the inlet to Sullivan’s Island to attack the American fort from the rear. Clinton’s troops were intercepted by American troops, led by Colonel William Thomson, and repulsed as they attempted to “breach” the treacherous waters of the inlet, thus giving us Breach Inlet.
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