History Of Georgetown Sc

  history of georgetown sc: The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina George C. Rogers, 1970 [December 2001]
  history of georgetown sc: Georgetown's North Island Robert McAlister, 2015-05-11 North Island has always been the beacon from the sea leading toward Georgetown, South Carolina. It was an island of exploration for the Spanish in 1526 and the first landing place of Lafayette, France's hero of the American Revolution, in 1777. It was a summer resort for aristocratic rice planters and their slaves from Georgetown and Waccamaw Neck until 1861. North Island's lighthouse, built in 1812, led thousands of sailing ships from all over the world past massive stone jetties and through Winyah Bay to Georgetown. Today, North Island is a sanctuary and laboratory for the study of nature's effects on this unique barrier island. Join historian Robert McAlister as he recounts the island's storied past.
  history of georgetown sc: Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley, Marta Leslie Thacker, Agnes Leland Baldwin, 2001*
  history of georgetown sc: Black Georgetown Remembered Kathleen M. Lesko, Valerie Melissa Babb, Carroll R. Gibbs, 2016 Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
  history of georgetown sc: South Carolina Ports Shelia Hempton Watson, 2004 When eight English noblemen known as the Lords Proprietors were granted the Charles Towne territory by King Charles II as a reward for their loyalty, the grant came with an express command to develop the area into a profit-making venture. Fortunately, the area came with a natural deep-water port, perfect for establishing trade. Soon trade in lumber, deerskins, and indigo established Charles Towne's wealth and prosperity, and the invention of the cotton gin and improvements in the rice crop cultivation helped boost the area's economy. By 1750, Charleston was the fourth largest city in colonial America--and the wealthiest, thanks in part to additional trade through Georgetown and Port Royal.
  history of georgetown sc: The Lumber Boom of Coastal South Carolina: Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding and the Devastation of Lowcountry Virgin Forests Robert McAlister, 2013-10-22 The virgin forests of longleaf pine, bald cypress and oak that covered much of the South Carolina Lowcountry presented seemingly limitless opportunity for lumbermen. Henry Buck of Maine moved to the South Carolina coast and began shipping lumber back to the Northeast for shipbuilding. He and his family are responsible for building the Henrietta, the largest wooden ship ever built in the Palmetto State. Buck was followed by lumber barons of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who forever changed the landscape, clearing vast tracts to supply lumber to the Northeast. The devastating environmental legacy of this shipbuilding boom wasn't addressed until 1937, when the International Paper Company opened the largest single paper mill in the world in Georgetown and began replanting hundreds of thousands of acres of trees. Local historian Robert McAlister presents this epic story of the ebb and flow of coastal South Carolina's lumber industry.
  history of georgetown sc: Georgetown County, South Carolina Ramona La Roche, 2000 Located in one of the Palmetto State's most picturesque regions, Georgetown County is a beautiful coastal county full of rich African- American traditions and a distinct Gullah heritage, from its roots in the antebellum South to the present. An integral part of the identity of the Lowcountry, the black community has played a prominent role in the successful development of the county over the years, and this volume serves to highlight and celebrate the county's people and their achievements, highlighting recognizable citizens and families, both prominent and everyday.
  history of georgetown sc: Pawleys Island Steve Roberts, Lee Brockington, 2018-07-09 The history of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, can be summed up in four words: rice, sea, golf, and hammocks. The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice, and by the mid-18th century, vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners. But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes, so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island starting in 1822. The end of slavery doomed the rice culture, and the old plantations were sold to rich Northerners for hunting and fishing retreats. By the 1960s, many of the old plantations were turned into golf courses, reviving the economy. But the beating heart of Pawleys Island remains the rhythm of the sea and what one early visitor called the only beach in the world.
  history of georgetown sc: Gullah Spirituals Eric Sean Crawford, 2021-07-16 In Gullah Spirituals musicologist Eric Crawford traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina's St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s. Grounded in an oral tradition with a dynamic and evolving character, spirituals proved equally adaptable for use during social and political unrest and in unlikely circumstances. Most notably, the island's songs were used at the turn of the century to help rally support for the United States' involvement in World War I and to calm racial tensions between black and white soldiers. In the 1960s, civil rights activists adopted spirituals as freedom songs, though many were unaware of their connection to the island. Gullah Spirituals uses fieldwork, personal recordings, and oral interviews to build upon earlier studies and includes an appendix with more than fifty transcriptions of St. Helena spirituals, many no longer performed and more than half derived from Crawford's own transcriptions. Through this work, Crawford hopes to restore the cultural memory lost to time while tracing the long arc and historical significance of the St. Helena spirituals.
  history of georgetown sc: Horry County, South Carolina, 1730-1993 Catherine Heniford Lewis, 1998 The story of South Carolina's northeastern corner, which suggests that its past does not fit neatly into South Carolina history. The book demonstrates Horry County's political, social and economic differences from other regions of the state.
  history of georgetown sc: A Guidebook to South Carolina Historical Markers , 2021-02-19 The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the Palmetto State. These roadside markers identify and interpret places valuable for understanding South Carolina's past, including sites of consequential events and buildings, structures, or other resources significant for their design or their association with institutions or individuals prominent in local, state, or national history. This volume includes a concise history of the South Carolina Historical Marker Program and an overview of the marker application process. For those interested in specific historic periods or themes, the volume features condensed lists of markers associated with broader topics such as the American Revolution, African American history, women's history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. While the program is administered by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, most markers are proposed by local organizations that serve as a marker's official sponsor, paying its cost and assuming responsibility for its upkeep. In that sense, this inventory is a record not just of places and subjects that the state has deemed worthy of acknowledgment, but of those that South Carolinians themselves have worked to enshrine.
  history of georgetown sc: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation , 1991
  history of georgetown sc: The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston Robert Francis Withers Allston, 2004 The reissue of The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W. Allston makes available for a new generation of readers a firsthand look at one of South Carolinas most influential antebellum dynasties and the institutions of slavery and plantation agriculture upon which it was built. Often cited by historians, Robert F.W. Allstons letters, speeches, receipts, and ledger entries chronicle both the heyday of the rice industry and its precipitate crash during the Civil War. As Daniel C. Littlefield underscores in his introduction to the new edition, these papers are significant not only because of Allstons position at the apex of planter society but also because his views represented those of the rice planter elite.
  history of georgetown sc: Shared Traditions Charles W. Joyner, 1999 Grounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian and folklorist explore the South's extraordinary amalgam of cultural traditions. By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folk groups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea Islands, immigration, the civil rights movement, and the effects of cultural tourism. Joyner addresses the convergence of African and European elements in the Old South and explores how specific environmental and demographic features shaped the acculturation process. He discusses divergent practices in worship services, funeral and burial services, and other religious ceremonies. He examines links between speech patterns and cultural patterns, the influence of Irish folk culture in the American South, and the southern Jewish experience. He also investigates points of intersection between history and legend and relations between the new social history and folklore. Ranging from rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation to the creolization of language to the musical brew of blues, country, jazz, and rock, Shared Traditions reveals the distinctive culture born of a sharing by black and white southerners of their deep-rooted and diverse traditions.
  history of georgetown sc: At Low Tide Quentin Ameris, Shonte Clement, Maggie Nichols, Jose Range, Ronda Taylor, 2017-09 At Low Tide: Voices of Sandy Island explores the past and future of an historically African American island community. Located just off the Waccamaw, Sandy Island was established as a freedmans community in 1800. The population was once over 2000 and has dwindled to under 100, but the importance of this community remains. This interactive VR kit includes a book and VR goggles to view our 360 documentary on Sandy Island. Just place your smartphone into the viewer and be transported to a town only accessible by boat.
  history of georgetown sc: Keeper of the House Rebecca T. Godwin, 2013-08-06 Keeper of the House is Rebecca T. Godwin's unforgettable novel narrated by the lively Minyon Manigault, a young black woman from a coastal South Carolina Gullah community. In 1929, due to mysterious family circumstances, Minyon is given up by her grandmother to the employment of Ariadne Fleming, a white madam in the famously elegant brothel called Hazelhedge. At the age of fourteen, she becomes a pair of eyes and hands, watching and working almost invisibly in a world where men and women leave their inhibition, and their pasts, at the door. As Minyon grows up in the household with other black people who provide behind-the-scenes support of Hazelhedge, she cannot escape her haunting childhood memories. Even while bearing witness to the events unfolding around her, Minyon seeks to find her place in the world, and her pace within herself.
  history of georgetown sc: The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau, 2012-04-10 A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland. The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather’s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family’s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community—locked in the prejudices of the 1960s—turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs. A “novel of real magnitude,” The Keepers of the House is an unforgettable story of family, tradition, and racial injustice set against the richly drawn backdrop of the American South (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
  history of georgetown sc: African American Genealogical Research Paul R. Begley, 1996
  history of georgetown sc: Georgetown and Winyah Bay Mary Boyd, James H. Clark, Georgetown County Historical Society, 2010-11-15 Georgetown lies just inland of the Atlantic Ocean at the upper reaches of Winyah Bay. For eons, five rivers have flowed through the countryside, offering lifeblood to a town and its people. Founded in 1729, Georgetown has seen the heights of prosperity in the indigo and rice crops and the depths of despair in the aftermath of the Civil War. Many famous names have connections here, such as Francis Marion, better known as the Swamp Fox; the Marquis de Lafayette; Thomas Lynch, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and Vice Pres. Aaron Burr, just to name a few. Presidents and other dignitaries have visited with us over these 200-plus years and millions have luxuriated in the waters of our nearby beaches for generations.
  history of georgetown sc: Mansfield Plantation Christopher Boyle, 2015-05-04 Standing on the banks of the Black River, Mansfield Plantation is a living testament to antebellum rice plantations. In 1718, it started as a five-hundred-acre land grant near the upstart village of Georgetown. The main house was built around 1800, and the plantation soon grew to nearly one thousand acres. John and Sallie Middleton Parker returned the property to the Man-Taylor-Lance-Parker family, a line of ownership dating back 150 years. Ongoing preservation projects ensure that future generations can explore and appreciate one of the most well-preserved rice plantations in America. Plantation historian Christopher C. Boyle captures the spirit of Mansfield Plantation and unravels the many mysteries of its past.
  history of georgetown sc: The Civil War Letters of Alexander McNeill, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment Alexander McNeill, 2016 More than two hundred eloquently written Civil War letters of love and life on the battlefield During the American Civil War, Alexander Sandy McNeill, a southern merchant, served in the Secession Guards, Company F, and Second South Carolina Regiment from April 17, 1861, to May 2, 1865. Within three weeks after the war began at Fort Sumter, McNeill wrote his first epistle to his long-time friend, Almirah Haseltine Tinie Simmons, in a campaign to win her heart and hand in marriage. The 29-year-old McNeill proclaimed in that letter, I have always esteemed you as a friend and now I feel stealing over me a feeling which tells me that you are now held in higher estimation than that of a friend. Civil War historian and documentary editor Mac Wyckoff adds context to the correspondence, more than two hundred letters that encompass the entire duration of the war. With the exception of three breaks in communication, McNeill wrote to Tinie four to five times a week and persisted to the last week of April 1865, more than two weeks after General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In general, letters written during the final six months of the war are hard to find as are many other primary source materials for the waning war. While this is among the largest and fullest Civil War collections, it is the literary quality of McNeill's letters and wide variety of topics reported that distinguish it from others. In frequent and lengthy missives, McNeill opened his heart and mind to Tinie, his fiancée and then wife. He fulsomely reported his experiences and thoughts on a soldier's life during this war, describing combat, camp life, the building of winter quarters, the marches, company election of officers, weather, food, and morale. McNeill chronicled his experiences at First Manassas (Bull Run), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and other battles. A man of sophisticated opinions, McNeill voiced his personal views on political, religious and military events, and the names of fellow soldiers he liked and disliked--all illuminating his deep, dynamic character.
  history of georgetown sc: From Slave Ship to Harvard James H. Johnston, 2012 A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.
  history of georgetown sc: Georgetown County's Historic Cemeteries Sharon Freeman Corey, 2016 Georgetown is the third-oldest city in the state of South Carolina and the county seat of Georgetown County. Named for King George III of England, Georgetown County lies on the Atlantic Ocean surrounding Winyah Bay. The county's rivers--Santee, Sampit, Black, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw--were named by the Native Americans who were the area's first inhabitants. In 1732, the land was settled by the English, French, and Scots. Their first staple crop was indigo, but rice soon became the indisputable king of the Lowcountry and flourished in the marshes along the banks of the county's many rivers, creeks, and bays. By 1850, the county contained more than 175 rice plantations. The plantation era ended with the Civil War, the loss of enslaved labor, and a series of devastating hurricanes. Georgetown County's history will forever remain a part of the live oaks and Spanish moss found throughout the county and is retold in every cemetery within Images of America: Georgetown County's Historic Cemeteries.
  history of georgetown sc: The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine , 1919
  history of georgetown sc: The Beneficiary Janny Scott, 2020-04-14 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR [A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh.—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?
  history of georgetown sc: Chronicles of Chicora Wood Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, 1922
  history of georgetown sc: Sundown Towns James W. Loewen, 2018-07-17 Powerful and important . . . an instant classic. —The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of sundown towns—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America. In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face second-generation sundown town issues, such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.
  history of georgetown sc: A Murder in Georgetown Bill Doar, 2014-10-01 On the night of Monday, April 30, 1951, Mayless Cribb Coker was murdered as she walked toward her apartment along Screven Street in the historic district of the City of Georgetown. The murder occurred in the same city block as the old county jail, Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church and only a stone's throw from Karnes Court, 712 Duke Street, the duplex where she lived with her husband, Louis H. Coker. The murder was probably the most sensational crime ever committed in Georgetown not only because of its brutality but also because of the time in which it was committed.
  history of georgetown sc: Wooden Ships on Winyah Bay Robert McAlister, 2011 The epic history of Winyah Bay's wooden boats stretches back to 1526, when Spanish explorers sailed through the inlet and were greeted by Native Americans in dugout canoes. The English settled Georgetown and the Bay's shores in 1736 to begin a legacy of rice and indigo plantations, and Revolutionary War hero Lafayette first landed on American soil at Winyah Bay in 1777. From the end of the Civil War until the beginning of World War II, hundreds of wooden schooners loaded lumber in the Port of Georgetown and braved storms off Cape Hatteras to deliver cargo to northern cities, as fishermen fished the rivers and the Bay in wooden dories, bateaus, and skiffs. Local author and wooden boat enthusiast Robert McAlister reveals the history of this bygone era, when majestic wooden ships deftly traversed the glimmering waters of Winyah Bay.
  history of georgetown sc: Neal Cox of Arcadia Plantation Neal Cox, Stephen G. Hoffius, 2003-01-01
  history of georgetown sc: Neal Cox of Arcadia Plantation Neal Cox, 2003-01-01 Memoir of Neal Cox, who grew up near Augusta, Georgia, and became superintendent of Arcadia Plantation, owned by Isaac Emerson and George Vanderbilt, near Georgetown, S.C. History of Arcadia Plantation and Georgetown County.
  history of georgetown sc: A Carolina Plantation Remembered Frances Cheston Train, 2008 Author Frances Cheston Train recalls the magic of summers spent at Friendfield Plantation in the 1930s, golden days insulated from the hardships of the Depression and filled with innocence, kindness and uncomplicated fun. This tender, minutely observed and humorous memoir is packed with detailed descriptions of everyday life on Friendfield Plantation and the romance of bygone days in the Lowcountry.
  history of georgetown sc: The Barbados-Carolina Connection Warren Alleyne, 1988 Historical and possible architectural links between the island of Barbados and South Carolina.
  history of georgetown sc: The Gourdin Family Larry E. Pursley, 1980 Louis Gourdin (d. 1716) immigrated from France to America before 1693. He and his wife, Mary Ann settled near Jamestown, in what is now Charleston County, South Carolina. Descendants remained in the South for many generations.
  history of georgetown sc: An Archaeological Survey of Wadmacon Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina Michael Trinkley, 1988
  history of georgetown sc: Extreme Word Search Parragon Books, 2018-10-16 Are you always in pursuit of hidden words? Well, open these pages and if you keep looking hard, words will never fail you. These 300 puzzles will keep you on the constant lookout for words going vertically, diagonally, forward, and bbackward with themes ranging from country music legends and types of potatoes to Las Vegas hotels and robots and automata. Are you ready to rise to an Extreme Word Search challenge? 300 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS: Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy! INCREASE YOUR KNOWLEDGE: Learn new facts on popular people and places while completing your word search puzzles. Dust off your knowledge of 80's hit songs, test how much you know about Star Wars, or find 20 amusement park rides. How about some of the most popular NFL stadiums or breeds of dogs? Hours of fun and entertainment to keep your mind challenged! EASY-TO-CARRY: Pocket format, small enough to fit in a purse, briefcase, or backpack. Great for on-the-go wherever your travels take you. Just the right size to leave on your nightstand and coffee table MAKES A GREAT GIFT: For the novice to expert this word search book makes a great gift! ON-THE GO POCKET PUZZLE COLLECTION: Look for more puzzle books including Fantastic Word Search and Ultimate Mind Games
  history of georgetown sc: Official Residences Around the World Abby Clouse-Radigan, 2018-10
  history of georgetown sc: Trial and Error Tom Rubillo, 2005 The city of Georgetown, South Carolina, is situated along the Atlantic coast where the Sampit River feeds into Winyah Bay. The early wealth of the area through 1865 was derived from an agricultural economy built on the backs of slave labor. This economy and the institution of slavery collapsed with the emancipation of the black population after the Civil War. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, however, Georgetown remained marred with inequalities between blacks and whites despite efforts to achieve a racial and cultural balance. In Trial and Error, Tom Rubillo explores the volatile case of John Brownfield--a black man tried for shooting a white policeman in the 1900s--and the Jim Crow mentality that was imbedded in the turn-of-the-century South. The result is a stirring narrative that examines the history of race relations in Georgetown, the trial of John Brownfield and the impact of the trial through the twentieth century to the present day. With meticulous research and engaging prose, Rubillo reconstructs the case and trial that became a watershed for race relations in Georgetown. Trial and Error is an essential volume in the history of Georgetown, the South Carolina Lowcountry and indeed the South as a whole.
  history of georgetown sc: Sunset Lodge in Georgetown David Gregg Hodges, 2019-09-02 The true, “carefully researched” story of a Depression-era brothel in a Bible Belt town that thrived for over three decades and the woman who owned it (Lee Gordon Brockington, author of Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs). Hazel Weisse moved to Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1936, and opened a brothel three miles south of Front Street. Aside from objections by a few ministers, most people in town looked the other way—and the business remained open for thirty-three years, until Weisse’s retirement in 1969. She was well known, making appearances every week at the stores on Front Street—and in the newspaper as a donor to charitable causes. She sent her “sporting ladies” to town for their weekly doctor visits, banking deposits, and shopping trips. But, aware of the conservative community around her business, she did not allow her employees free access to Georgetown. She approved their choices of clothes to wear in public, warned them not to look at men on the sidewalk, and forbade soliciting. Based on research, interviews, and local lore, David Gregg Hodges attempts the unravel the history behind a place spoken of in whispers—and reveals the people and stories behind the Sunset Lodge.
  history of georgetown sc: Rice to Ruin Roy Williams III, Alexander Lucas Lofton, 2018-03-26 The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynasty In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling process could not keep pace with high crop yields, Lucas was asked by planters to build a machine to speed the process. In 1787 he introduced the first highly successful water-pounding rice mill—creating the foundation of an international rice mill dynasty. In Rice to Ruin, Roy Williams III and Alexander Lucas Lofton recount the saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of that empire. Lucas's invention did for rice, South Carolina's first great agricultural staple, what Eli Whitney did for cotton with his cotton gin. With his sons Jonathan Lucas II and William Lucas, Lucas built rice mills throughout the lowcountry. Eventually the rice kingdom extended to India, Egypt, and Europe after the younger Jonathan Lucas moved to London to be at the center of the international rice trade. Their lives were grand until the American Civil War and its aftermath. The end of slave labor changed the family's fortunes. The capital tied up in slaves evaporated; the plantations and town houses had to be sold off one by one; and the rice fields once described as the gold mines of South Carolina often failed or were no longer planted. Disease and debt took its toll on the Lucas clan, and, in the decades that followed, efforts to regain the lost fortune proved futile. In the end the once-glorious Carolina gold rice fields that had brought riches left the family in ruin.
THE HISTORY OF GEORGE TOWN COUNTY, SOUTH …
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GEORGETOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT SURVEY - South Carolina
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the most striking differences between Georgetown County and the South as a whole is in size of slave holdings.2 Of the 339 slaveholders in Georgetown, 157 owned less than 10, and 59 …

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Georgetown County and its county seat were named for King George II of England. Spanish explorers are believed to have visited this coastal area in 1526, but no permanent settlement …

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Georgetown has long been known for its warm hospitality and Southern charm. Port of Entry By 1729, Georgetown was a busy seaport, with cargo ever flowing down-river on barges and flats. …

NAME OF SURVEY - nationalregister.sc.gov
NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE SURVEY AREA Introduction Georgetown lies on the north bank of the Sampit River at the head of Winyah Bay, twelve miles above the Atlantic Ocean. This …

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Georgetown Co. and Greenville regarding family matter and social life; from Mary P. Mitchell and her husband Donald Mitchell, Edgewood Plantation, Georgetown Co. at sea, in Paris France …

Thomas J. Tobias papers, ca. 1716-1968
Scope and Content: Papers chiefly consist of research material for an unfinished book on the history of Charleston (S.C.) as a port, 1670-ca. 1865; and photocopies and transcriptions of …

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coast, three districts were laid out: Georgetown, extending from the North Carolina line to the Santee River; Charleston, lying between the Santee and the Combahee Rivers; and Beaufort, …

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In the ports of Charleston and, to a lesser extent, Georgetown, prosperous citizens often purchased gravestones from stone carvers in New England. A few Charlestonians even …

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORIC PLACES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Archives and History Center. The following publications also provided valuable information: Drayton, David. “Gullah Roots: A Tour of African American Georgetown.” n.d. Foner, Eric. …

AMERICAN CEMETERIES IN GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA
AMERICAN CEMETERIES IN GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA Christina Brooks A cemetery survey was completed in July of 2009 at two African American cemeteries in coastal …

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Charles Town, Beaufort and Georgetown developed during the 1700’s and settlers slowly made their way inland. Blackville is located in what was part of Lord Colleton’s land grant that later …

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For much of its history, Georgetown County has relied on agriculture as its major economic base. The County prospered from growing and marketing both rice and indigo. Many of the large …

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30 May 2024 · South Carolina has been affected by 13 tropical cyclones during May, with seven of those impacts occurring since 2007. This summary includes a statistical analysis of the …

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and have important associations with African American history State Historic Preservation Office South Carolina Department of Archives and History HM = Historical Marker NR = National …

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SC: The facility that was built in about 1890 as a part-time school - as a small part-time school - and as the school grew, the school kept adding adjacent properties on of townhouses and so on.

How Did we Get to Now? - South Carolina
At its inception, its primary focus was to compile an inventory of extant African American schools that existed in the period roughly between 1895 and 1970.

Southern Jewish History
explores core themes, and provides a narrative history of southern Jewish life. With a preface by Eli N. Evans and essays by Theodore Rosengarten, Deborah Dash Moore, Jenna Weissman …

City of Georgetown Planning Commission
4. Look into software for Building and Planning Department that serves as a database for history and details of all permitting, variances, and violations for properties within the City 5. Establish a procedures page on the City of Georgetown website to …

CAROLINA'S LARGEST COLONIAL SHIPYARD Christopher F.
around the three trade centers-Charleston, Georgetown and Beaufort. Charleston, alone, supported some 14 shipyards during the period from the beginning of the 18th century up until 1865. Probably the largest shipyard in all of colonial South Carolina was the one started on the south side of Hobcaw Creek in 1753 by two Scottish shipwrights, John

How Did we Get to Now? - South Carolina
Lewis Butler ES 139 McMillian St. Bamberg, SC / 33.304765, - 81.038222 Richard Carroll HS State Road 5-196 / 33.303155, -81.038474 Previously Identified Schools Carver School Clear Pond, SC / N33.1557° W81.0957 Rosenwald, Fire Insurance SHPO Denmark School Rosenwald SHPO Olar School Olar, SC / N33.1715° W81.1748° Rosenwald SHPO

South Carolina S.C.V. records, 1988-1994 SCHS 394
the preservation of the history, culture and heritage of the South. The South Carolina Division of the S.C.V. has numerous local chapters statewide known as camps. ... Georgetown, SC 394.01 (C) 03.19 Fort Sumter Camp #1269, Charleston, SC 394.01 (C) 03.20 Star of the West Camp #1253, Citadel (Charleston)

Battles, Skirl11ishes, and Actions - South Carolina
A series of booklets published by the SC Archives. NSC Names in South Carolina. A periodical published from 1954 to 1983 by the Department of English, University of South Carolina. MS "South Carolina Revolutionary Battles: Part Ten." A manuscript in Subject File H-2-2, SC Archives. SCBS Terry W. Lipscomb, South Carolina Becomes a State (1976). A

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Intermark Management Corporation . C/O: Villas at Winyah Bay . 808-B Lady Street . Columbia, SC 29201 ***It is first come first serve & Applications will not be assigned to units until ALL paperwork is

South Carolina State Ports Authority
Georgetown and Beaufort for the handling of waterborne commerce, and to foster and stimulate the shipment of freight and commerce through these ports. The Ports Authority has no stockholders or equity holders and is directed by a governing board, whose members are appointed by the Governor of South Carolina for five-year terms.

Georgetown County Profile - SCDHEC
Georgetown County and SC for all cancers by sex and race, including Georgetown County’s rank in SC compared to all other SC counties. Table 2. Cancer Mortality by Sex and Race, 2014-2018, Georgetown County and South Carolina* SC Georgetown County 5-year rate 5-year rate lives lost* SC rank all 165 159 170 cancer38 male 203 196 94 35

African American Historic Places in South Carolina
and have important associations with African American history State Historic Preservation Office South Carolina Department of Archives and History HM = Historical Marker NR = National Register of Historic Places BEAUFORT COUNTY HM - CAMPBELL CHAPEL A.M.E. NE OF CHURCH ST. AND BOUNDARY ST. INTERSECTION, BLUFFTON

DIAMOND YOUTH SOFTBALL 10U STATE TOURNAMENT 8 Oaks Park - Georgetown, SC
5 Jun 2024 · 8 Oaks Park - Georgetown, SC Advancing More Than One Team om Tou rnam etB ack - Af the completion of a double elimination bracket if any two teams are tied, with the same won-loss record, the head-to-head tie-breaker wi l be used if the tied teams played each other during the tournament. If the head -to ad ti ebr ak r do s

H.A.M. Smith papers, ca. 1744-1922 SCHS# 1102
Notes for a projected history of Goose Creek with abstracts of records for Goose Creek, notes on the Luxembourg claims, some legal notes included material regarding Roper Hospital (1922), a letter regarding 1893 fatalities from a hurricane in the Georgetown area, abstracts from the British Public records office, various SC Colonial records and

South Carolina State Climatology Office - South Carolina …
22 Dec 2005 · A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONTHLY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL (1890 - 2022) 'JAN 1987 Amount: 20.7" Station: Caesars Head FEB 1969 Amount: 33.9" Station: Caesars Head MAR 1960 Amount: 28.2" Station: Jocassee 8 WNW APR 1983 Amount: 3.5" Station: Hogback Mountain (Greenville County) MAY 1960 Amount: 1.5" Station: Caesars …

South Carolina Women
Biographical Note: Mistress of Fairfield Plantation in Georgetown, S.C. and the wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Alston and sister-in-law of Thomas P. Alston (1795-1861). Alston Family Papers-SCHS 1002.00 Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803-1884) Mary was the youngest of six children born to Col. William Alston (1756-1839) and his

South Carolina Department of Archives and History / State …
The Georgetown region is located along the PeeDee, Black and Santee Rivers. There are also unique systems along the Cooper and Ashley Rivers and along the Savannah River. ... The guidance begins with a brief overview of the history and a description of two types of rice fields, inland and tidal. After the history, the document has ...

HISTORICAL HURRICANES IN SOUTH CAROLINA o
* 82 deaths in the U.S. and Virgin Islands (26 in SC) and more than $10 billion total property damages were attributed to Hugo. ... *Wind gusts estimated at 170 mph created the worst wind damage in the history of the city of Beaufort. * Gracie made landfall within an hour of low tide in the Beaufort area, which reduced storm surge to less than ...

HISTORY OF 911 - 911.gov
understanding of the history of 911 in America—its genesis, implementation, ongo-ing enhancements, and potential for further development in relation to technological and regulatory considerations as NextGen 911 becomes a nationwide reality. George S. Rice, Jr. Executive Director Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies – iCERT ...

Wilson family papers, 1300 - South Carolina Historical Society
family history (1877); and manuscripts of writings (ca. 1870-ca. 1910) including a poem, speeches, a novel "Cobwebs in White Hall," and essays and articles about birds, wildlife, South Carolina colonial art, and other topics; and other items. His correspondence includes a

VIRTUAL FIRELD TRIPS – GEORGETOWN’S HISTORIC STORES
Georgetown, became county seat. The discovery of silver near Georgetown in the late 1860s soon started a new mining boom. With the boom came a shift of people west from Idaho Springs. In 1868, residents voted for Georgetown as the new county seat. Masonic Hall

Forfeited Land Commission - gtcounty.org
georgetown county forfeited land commission 129 screven street po box 421270 georgetown, sc 29442 843-545-3102 taxinfo@gtcounty.org forfeited land commission members: miriam e. mace, county treasurer kenneth c. baker, county auditor marlene mcconnell, county register of deeds real estate bid mobile home bid tms:_____

Genetics, bioethics, and biotechnology syllabus - Georgetown …
Documentary History. Georgetown University Press. 1998. ix. Klug, W and M. Cummings. Essentials of Genetics. 3rd Edition. Prentice Hall. 1999. x. Kreuzer, H. and A. Massey. ... SC HOOL CA NCEL L ED 13 NO CLASS 14 NO SCHOOL 17 Cell to cell Interact ions Stem cells Viruses & Prions Finish Ch. 2 (34-38) & Do SG (19-21) 18 Mitosis vs. Meiosis

The Even Start Family Literacy Program: The Rise and Fall of …
25 Feb 2019 · the sc hool and “to mediate the incongruence between what is learned about literacy at home and what is expected at school.” 21. Accordingly, family literacy worked to attack intergenerational illiteracy. Family literacy programs developed …

Lowcountry Food Banks Pantries
Georgetown, SC 29440 Helping Hands of Georgetown 843-527 -3424 Monday - Thursday 9:00am to 12:00pm 1813 Highmarket St. Georgetown, SC 29440 United Community Food Bank 843-546 -4414 3. rd. Friday of the Month 12:00pm – 2:00pm 900 …

Cover Page City of Georgetown Comp Plan - Revize
27 Mar 2024 · According to the merican Community A Survey, Georgetown’s estimated 2021 population s 8,435 wa residents. This represents a decline since7.9% 2010. Contrary to the population growth in Georgetown County and South Carolina, the City’s population has been slowly declining for over the last 60 years, with * City of Georgetown . Georgetown *

Middleton family papers, 1736-1929 SCHS Call # 1168
M.D. and other stletters regarding service. Roster of officers of the 1 regiment of SC Artillery (1863). 12/158/23-24 Middleton, Edward B. 1842-1910 Diary and journal, 1864-1865. 6 items. Charleston member of first SC artillery during the Civil War. Original diary (8/1864-

An Overview of South Carolina’s Demographic Trends and …
16 Dec 2022 · • The SC median age (24) was younger than the US median age (28) • In 2020, the graph becomes less of a pyramid and more cylindrical. • Workforce age population represents 60% of the total population; down from 63% in 2010 • ‘Baby-Boomers’ were between the age of 56 and 74 • The SC median age (40) was older than the US median age (39)

Employees by Agency - South Carolina
15 Nov 2024 · horry-georgetown tech college 357 housing authority 129 human affairs commission 44 john de la howe school 60 judicial department 622 labor license & regulation 427 lander university 436 law enforcement trning council 122 medical university of sc 3165 midlands technical college 568 museum commission 37 northeastern technical college 91

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources - Boat History …
The disclosure of your social security number is required to obtain SC hunting and fishing licenses. This complies with SC Code Annon 63-17-1080 and Federal law 42 USCA 666(a)(13), which requires a licensing agency to provide this information to the Child Support Enforcement Unit of the Department

Georgetown County Georgetown, SC 29442 Department of …
Georgetown, SC 29442 Office: (843) 545-3116 Fax: (843) 545-3296 Email:bldpermits@gtcounty.org Georgetown County Department of Planning And Development _____ Januaw, 2019 Residential Pool Protection Device Certificate of Installation I certify that where a wall of a dwelling or structure serves as part of the barrier, doors and operable …

Featuring the International African American Museum
2023 SC African American History Calendar Featuring the International African American Museum Linden, New Jersey. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 29 30 31 01 1834 - Henry McNeal Turner was born in Hannah Circuit. The A.M.E. minister was the first African American appointed as an U.S. Army chaplain by President Lincoln ...

36th Annual SC Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series 2024 …
Govcup.dnr.sc.gov May 8 -11 Charleston Billfish Invitational Contact: Stan Jones 49 Immigration Street Charleston, SC 29403 843-790-4001 billfish@seabreezemarina.com May 22 -25 56th Annual Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament Contact: David Black P.O. Box 1704 Georgetown, SC 29442 843-546-1776; fax: 843-546-7832 dblack@georgetownlandingmarina.com

Freshwater, Marine and Terrestrial Leeches Guild
Georgetown County (Sawyer and Shelley 1976). While it is a terrestrial species, it prefers moist areas near water sources and feeds on earthworms; little else is known about its natural history (Sawyer 1979, Shelley et al. 1979). It has a broader distribution in North Carolina, and there is a

QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL & SURETY BAIL BONDSMEN for GEORGETOWN …
stanley, michael jr p o box 348 georgetown sc 29442 843-240-9240 stewart, colvin c. p o box 417 georgetown sc 29442 843-359-6731 ward, roscoe (runner) 913 church street georgetown sc 29440 843-527-1224 williams, jemal w. 1350 bush river rd ste a columbia sc 29210 803-878-0160 *** end of report *** ...

South Carolina Wireless E911 Program - rfa.sc.gov
History of 911 August 3, 2015. South Carolina Wireless E911 Program What is NG9-1-1 (NENA Definition) NG9-1-1 is an Internet Protocol (IP) based system comprised of managed Emergency Services IP networks (ESInets), functional elements (applications), ... SC 911 Strategic Plan August 3, 2015.

Georgetown County Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP)
22 Mar 2016 · Georgetown County November 2015 NPDES SMS4 General Permit SWMP Georgetown County Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP) Adopted July 1, 2014 Revised December 2015 129 Screven Street Georgetown, SC 29440 Telephone: (843) 545-3258 Prepared in accordance with SCDHEC Permit #SCR030000. Georgetown County

THE IDENTITY OF AMERICAN CATHOLIC HIGHER …
history. Georgetown College’s founding in 1789 was the first of several Catholic higher education institutions created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The 20th century brought the challenges of accrediting agencies and mixed communi-cation with The Vatican, including Pope John Paul II’s (1990) Ex Corde Ecclesiae.

Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Heritage Preserve, South Island
Title: Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center Heritage Preserve, South Island Author: SCDNR Created Date: 2/18/2015 10:39:20 AM

DIVERSION/INTERVENTION & TREATMENT PROGRAMS …
history are not eligible for PTI or AEP. A prior alcohol-related offense history renders a person ineligible for AEP, and a significant history of traffic offenses renders a person ineligible for TEP. IR UIT IR UIT DIRE TOR OF DIVERSION ONTA T INFORMATION 1st Jenny Russ 843-871-2640 · jruss@scsolicitor1.org

Horry County Historic Historic Resource Resource SurveySurvey
30 Jun 2009 · South Carolina Department of Archives and History • 8301 Parklane Road • Columbia, SC 29223 and Horry County Planning and Zoning Department • 1301 2nd Avenue, Suite 1D09 • Conway, SC 29526 Report prepared by: New South Associates • 6150 East Ponce de Leon Avenue • Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083 Mary Beth Reed– Principal Investigator

A Critical History of the United States Census and ... - Georgetown …
History undoubtedly has a role to play in informing our understanding of the legality of citizenship questions. 10. But that history must be properly understood. In that vein, this Article provides a corrective to the Administration’s historical account of citizenship questions on the census. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, it ...

South Carolina - Census.gov
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TRAVELING THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORY
Magnolia Plantation Charleston 843-571-1266 http://www.magnoliaplantation.com/ Middleton Place Charleston 843-556-6020 https://middletonplace.org/

Southern Jewish History
Southern Jewish History DALE ROSENGARTEN What began eight years ago as a modest oral history program at the College of Charleston has blossomed into a major traveling exhibit with the ambition of revolutionizing how American Jews think about their history. "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern

EARLY SEASON SOUTH CAROLINA HURRICANES T - South …
pressure at Georgetown early on June 22, indicating the approach of the hurricane’s counterclockwise circulation. Planter Elias Horry, also living in the Georgetown area, wrote of “gale” conditions. The center and strongest winds were apparently located between Georgetown and Hilton Head, most likely centered near Charleston. The remarks

Stormwater Management Ordinance 2014 - gtcounty.org
Georgetown County and in downstream receiving waterbody; and, 5 d. Alleviating street and property flooding and its adverse impacts caused by urban ... 122.26 and SC Regulation 61-9.122.26) developed pursuant to the Clean Water Act and to assure Georgetown County the authority to take any action required by it to obtain and comply with its ...

Before calling in to the Board Office - You may check your
2 Feb 2015 · Personal History Questions: You will need to attach a written explanation for any “Yes’ answers in the Personal History Information section on a separate sheet of paper. Additional information may be requested by the Board Office or a Board appearance may be necessary. 2.

Keystone Riverine Flooding Events in South Carolina
19 Jul 2016 · Flooding in Loris, SC from Florence in 2018 (Hope Mizzell/SCDNR)) The general definition of a flood is the temporary condition of a partial or complete inundation of typically dry land. There are three common types of flooding; fluvial, pluvial, and coastal. 1. Fluvial flooding, also known as riverine flooding, is the flooding of typically dry ...

Georgetown County Planning and Development Zoning Division
Georgetown County Planning and Development Zoning Division SIGN PERMIT APPLICATION SIGN PERMITS MUST BE ISSUED PRIOR TO THE INSTALLATION OF ANY SIGN ***FEES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ALL SIGN PERMITS*** ... Georgetown, SC 29440 Phone: (843) 545-3128 or (843) 545-3602 Fax: (843) 545-3299 .

Siegling Music House records, 1820-1958
3 Music and Song books, 1850’s-1872. 3 bd. Vols. Charleston music merchants. Music books collected or sold by SMH. Included are a piano teaching handbook (1872) by Peter Silea; a “Home Companion” book with popular love and

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE LAND USE ELEMENT
Georgetown County, SC. Open Space Preservation Map. Horry County Williamsburg County Charleston County. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE. LAND USE ELEMENT + + RESTORATION 52, LLC. R | 52. Preserved Open Space. Existing Conditions Maps. Floodplains and Wetlands . Species Richness. Source: South Carolina GAP Analysis Program, SC DENR

MANUFACTURED HOME PERMIT APPLICATION
GEORGETOWN COUNTY . DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT . BUILDING DIVISION Fax # (843) 545. MANUFACTURED HOME PERMIT APPLICATION *Denotes Required Fields . ... Georgetown, SC 29442 . Office #: (843) 545-3116 -3296 Email: bldpermits@gtcounty.org . FOR OFFICE USE ONLY .