It wasn’t that long ago that I was talking to a friend of mine, Brian Duffy, about the history of his neighborhood Raven’s Run and how the developer was into flying at the time. ‘Why do you think you live in a neighborhood that has a private air strip?’ I asked him. ‘Bill,’ he went on to say, ‘The amount of information you have about the different neighborhoods in and around Mount Pleasant’ is interesting.’
A few days later, I met up with Brian and told him thank you. He looked at me with question marks in his eyes and asked me why I was saying thank you. I replied, ‘you gave me an idea,’ and I asked him if he wouldn’t mind sharing some of his Raven’s Run neighbors’ contact info for an article I’m planning on writing about Mount Pleasant’s fly-in and fly-out community. Over the many years I would be hard-pressed to give anyone the number of times I’ve said Raven’s Run is Mount Pleasant’s first move-up community and only fly-in and fly-out community.
If you lived in Mount Pleasant five decades ago you would have moved up. There were a few neighborhoods like Hobcaw Creek in 1976 that were part of the early suburban growth, as well as some others, but nothing like Raven’s Run. That’s why I often say it’s Mount Pleasant’s first move-up community. It all started in early 1980 when R.A.C. Enterprises, headed up by Robert Causey, began subdividing a track of land known as Yaupon Plantation, which made up the neighborhoods we know today as East Crossing, Crown Pointe and Raven’s Run.
Developing Raven’s Run coincided with Causey’s newfound passion for flying. According to town records the earliest builder permits issued for Raven’s Run were in 1985; that same year the private runway FAA identifier SC65 was activated for its airport, and in 1986 the first of 93 homes was completed…