Georgetown

Pawleys Island, SC

This house was built between 1838 and 1848 by All Saints Academy for the summer residence of its headmaster.

Litchfield Beach, SC

ALL SAINTS PARISH 1767 (Front) Anglican services were held on Waccamaw Neck by 1737, with a chapel built on land purchased by Percival...

Pawleys Island, SC

This house, built by 1848, served as the summer parsonage for All Saints Episcopal Church for many years.

Georgetown, SC

ANTIPEDO BAPTIST CHURCH (Front) In the plan of Georgetown, laid out by 1730, this one acre lot was reserved for Antipedo Baptists by...

On January 24, 1781, Capts.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) The main house at Beneventum dates to c. 1755.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) This cemetery, established ca.

Georgetown, SC

This African Methodist Episcopal church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County.

Georgetown, SC

Organized shortly after the Civil War with Rev. Edward Rhue as its first pastor, Bethesda Baptist Church purchased this site by 1867.

Union Crossroads, SC

BIRTHPLACE OF JEREMIAH JOHN SNOW (Front) China Grove was the birthplace of the Reverend Jeremiah John Snow (1836-1892), a son of the...

Murrells Inlet, SC

(Front) Title to the land that comprised Brookgreen Plantation is traced to a patent for 48,000 acres granted to Robert Daniell in 1711.

Plantersville, SC

(Front) This plantation, with its origins in several grants to John Allston in 1732, 1734, and later, was in the hands of his grandson...

E Of Georgetown, SC

President George Washington on his southern tour traveled southward over this road, April 2730, 1791.

DeBordieu Colony, SC

(Front) Many Waccamaw Neck planters summered at the seashore from late May to early November to escape the malarial swamps of the rice...

Andrews, SC

(Front) This is the site of a “Dissenter” meeting house, built ca.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) This congregation, founded in 1794 and long known as Antipedo Baptist Church, was the * No longer extant.

Georgetown, SC

FRIENDLY AID SOCIETY (Front) The Christian Friendly Aid Society (CFAS), an African American benevolent society, built a lodge here c.1947.

Georgetown, SC

When Capt. John Nelson, who was sent by Gen. Marion in Jan. 1781 to the Sampit Road to reconnoitre, met Capt. Barfield and his Tories...

Volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Beauregard in April 1861, mustered into Confederate service at White's Bridge near here on July 19, 1861,...

Georgetown, SC

Georgetown, the third oldest town in the state, was laid out in 1729 by Elisha Screven on land granted to John and Edward Perrie, Sept....

Georgetown, SC

(Front) This courthouse, designed by prominent architect and South Carolina native Robert Mills (1781-1855), was built in 1823-24 to...

Georgetown, SC

(Front) Ships and boats have loaded and unloaded cargo at the Sampit River near Front Street since the founding of Georgetown, ca.

(Front) In 1718 the Lords Proprietors granted 12,000 acres on Hobcaw Point, the southern portion of Waccamaw Neck, to John, Lord Carteret.

North Santee, SC

Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born here, Aug. 5, 1749.

Georgetown, SC

Established by and comprised of the planters of All Saints Parish, this social club was dedicated to epicurean pursuits.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) In the 1870s, this was the home of James Alfred Bowley (c.1844-1891).

Murrells Inlet, SC

Joseph Alston (1779-1816) was educated at the College of Charleston and at Princeton.

Pawleys Island, SC

This house stands on land owned by R. F. W. Allston, governor of SC 1856-58.

Georgetown, SC

This National Historic Landmark was the family home of Joseph H. Rainey, the first African American elected to the US House of...

Georgetown, SC

(Front) This house, probably built between 1750 and 1800, was for many years the home of Harold Kaminski (1886-1951), Georgetown County...

Pawleys Island, SC

This house, built on 10 acres of beach land by 1858, was owned by the LaBruce family, who were successful rice planters in this area of...

E Of Georgetown, SC

A lover of liberty, Lafayette left Bordeaux, France, March 26, 1777, "To conquer or perish" in the American cause, and arrived at...

Georgetown, SC

William Wayne, nephew of Revolutionary General Anthony Wayne, was converted here by Bishop Francis Asbury on February 24, 1785, and a...

Georgetown, SC

(Front) This church was founded in 1866 by Rev. James Smalls, its pastor for many years.

Pawleys Island, SC

By 1842 this house was here on Pawleys Island and was owned by Robert Nesbit (1799-1848).

Andrews, SC

(Front) Bishop Francis Asbury first arrived in Georgetown in Feb. 1785 and would return in 1786, at which time he established a slave...

Pawleys Island, SC

Plowden Weston, Lt. Gov. of S.C. 1862-64, obtained land here in 1844 and by 1858 had built this beach residence.

Pawleys Island, SC

PAWLEY’S ISLAND (Front) This island, located about ½ mile east, was used by plantation householders who lived on the seashore from May to...

Hemingway, SC

Pleasant Hill Consolidated School opened in 1938 as an elementary and high school.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) From the 1880s to the 1930s the block bordered by Highmarket, Dozier, Duke, and Church streets served as a cemetery for...

Plantersville, SC

(Front) The first church on this site, known as Prince Frederick's Chapel, Pee Dee, was built in 1848 on a site donated by the Rev. Hugh...

ABOUT 1.7 MI. E OF THE WACCAMAW RIVER, SC

On his tour south to inspect the defenses of the Atlantic coast, President Monroe reached Prospect Hill, Col. Benjamin Huger's residence,...

Pawleys Island, SC

This causeway was built between January 1845 and November 1846 by Robert Francis Withers Allston, who owned a summer residence on Pawleys...

Pawleys Island, SC

This summer residence was owned by Robert F. W. Allston (1801-1864) when the state of SC granted the marsh behind it to him in 1846.

In 1711 the Lords Proprietors granted Winyah Barony to Robert Daniel, who sold it to Thomas Smith.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) The Robert Stewart House was built between 1740 and 1770 by Robert Stewart (d. 1776), planter and militia captain; it was sold in...

Sampit, SC

(Front) This church, formally organized in 1839, had its origins in a slave mission begun in 1786 on Gov. Thomas Boone’s plantation, 3...

Georgetown, SC

(Front) In early 1865 the USS Harvest Moon, a 193-foot, 5-gun side-wheel steamer, was the flagship of Adm. John A. Dahlgren of the South...

Sampit, SC

In the early evening about March 20, 1781, the last skirmish between Gen. Marion and Col. Watson was fought at Sampit Bridge, one-half...

Litchfield Beach, SC

St. John A.M.E. Church was established in the spring of 1867 with Rev. Saby Green as the first pastor.

The Oaks Plantation was established on the Santee River in 1705 by a grant from the Lords Proprietors to John Sauseau, a French Huguenot...

Murrells Inlet, SC

daughter of Aaron Burr and one of the most learned women of her era; wife of Governor Joseph Alston, who is buried west of here, with...

Georgetown, SC

TOWN CLOCK (Front) This Greek Revival market and town hall was built in 1842 after a fire destroyed many of the frame buildings on Front...

Pawleys Island, SC

This house, one of the oldest on Pawleys, was reputedly moved here after 1858.

Murrells Inlet, SC

On his southern tour in 1791 President George Washington spent the night of April 28 here at Brookgreen Plantation.

Georgetown, SC

(Front) 732 Prince Street was the home of William Doyle Morgan (1853-1938), mayor 18911906 and the catalyst for much of Georgetown's...

Georgetown, SC

WILLIAM SCREVEN (Front) In this cemetery is buried William Screven, first pastor of the earliest Baptist church in the South.

Georgetown, SC

Springing from the fervor for indigo, the colony's vital new crop for making blue dye, the Winyah Indigo Society was begun in 1755 and...

Georgetown, SC

Winyah Indigo School District was created in 1885 to maintain public education in Georgetown.