History of Sedgley Abbey Plantation circa 1799

In the 18th Century when the Lower Cape Fear Region became open to colonial-era settlers, many wealthy planters and merchants built grand homes as status symbols.  Among these was a sprawling residence and plantation built in the mid-1700a, possibly by William Lord, located about a half-mile north of Snow's Cut along present day Telfair's Creek.  The next owner, a Scottish merchant Peter Maxwell, gave the estate the name of Sedgley Abbey and lived there from 1781 until 1801.  After the Maxwells died, the plantation changed hands  several times and eventually fell victim to neglect.  By the 1870s, Sedgley Abbey Plantation, once regarded as the grandest colonial residence of the Cape Fear was in ruins.  By the early 1900s, only the cellar remained."  -Excerpt from The Coquina Resources of Florida's East Coast by Dr. Thomas M. Scott 

A quiet neighborhood set back off Carolina Beach Road, Sedgley Abbey Plantation boasts fifty-nine brick homes.  Close to Carolina and Kure Beaches, shopping and dining yet accessible to Wilmington makes Sedgley Abbey Plantation the perfect community in which to live!

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