From a shaded rocker on the inn’s long porches, views of the time-worn brick and tabby warehouse, weathered docks hosting shrimp boats and sailing ships, and the blue waters of Winyah Bay and the Atlantic beyond have remained unchanged for centuries, softening the boundaries between yesterday and today.
Inn History
Built in 1765, what is now Harbor House Bed and Breakfast once belonged to Dr. Charles Fyffe, a Scottish physician and charter member of the Winyah Indigo Society. A British Loyalist, Dr. Fyffe saw his property confiscated during the Revolutionary War. From there Harbor House passed through several hands until its purchase by Herbert G. Tarbox in 1936.
Meg Tarbox, the present owner and innkeeper of Harbor House, is the granddaughter of Herbert Tarbox. The Georgian-style mansion, which has original floors of heart pine and eight fireplaces, underwent an extensive and immaculate restoration in the 1990s.
