Download or read book Georgetown and Winyah Bay written by Mary Boyd and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Brief and Exhibits Relating to Improvements in Channel Winyah Bay and Sampit River for Account City and County of Georgetown South Carolina written by Georgetown (S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winyah Bay Georgetown South Carolina written by Timothy L. Fagerburg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgetown Harbor Including Sampit River and Winyah Bay South Carolina Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Reports of Examination and Survey of Georgetown Harbor Including Sampit River and Winyah Bay South Carolina written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgetown s North Island written by Robert McAlister and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Georgetown Harbor Including Sampit River and Winyah Bay South Carolina Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Reports of Examination and Survey of Georgetown Harbor Including Sampit River and Winyah Bay South Carolina January 13 1904 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed with Illustration written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgetown Harbor Including Sampit River and Winyah Bay South Carolina written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1904* with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunset Lodge in Georgetown written by David Gregg Hodges and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Improvement of Winyah Bay South Carolina Mr Tillman Presented the Following Argument of the Board of Trade of Georgetown S C Before Committee on Rivers and Harbors of Fifty seventh Congress Relative to the Improvement of Winyah Bay South Carolina from Its Ocean Entrance to the Wharves at Georgetown S C February 15 1902 Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgetown and the Waccamaw Neck in Vintage Postcards written by Susan Hoffer McMillan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgetown and the Waccamaw Neck in South Carolina are steeped in historic and folkloric literature, reflective of the area's rich cultural past. This volume brings that treasury to bear in a collection of vintage postcards from the region compiled for the first time. You will see how the area's aristocratic past ties to present-day Georgetown and the nearby resorts of Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet and the renowned Brookgreen Gardens. Also included are nostalgic views of life on plantations along the Santee Rivers, which relied upon Georgetown for economic trade, then and now. The communities depicted in this book were among America's wealthiest 150 years ago. That legacy is still seen in architectural remnants-plantations, churches, and town houses now restored to their former grandeur.
Download or read book Wooden Ships on Winyah Bay written by Robert McAlister and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Georgetown County s Historic Cemeteries written by Sharon Freeman Corey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Winyah Bay S C Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Report on Preliminary Examination of the Basin of Winyah Bay S C with a View to Providing a Uniform Depth of 18 Feet at Mean Low Water and to Giving Increased Harbor Facilities to the City of Georgetown December 12 1911 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winyah Bay S C Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Report on Preliminary Examination of Winyah Bay S C with a View to Securing a Channel of Increased Depth and Adequate Width from a Point on the Sampit River 1 Mile Above the Limits of the City of Georgetown October 10 1919 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winyah Bay S C Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers Report on Preliminary Examination of the Basin of Winyah Bay S C with a View to Providing a Uniform Depth of 18 Feet at Mean Low Water and to Giving Increased Harbor Facilities to the City of Georgetown written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Georgetown County South Carolina written by George C. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [December 2001]
Download or read book Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River written by Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
