About Georgetown, South Carolina

Georgetown is a city of 8,403 people and the seat of Georgetown County, where four rivers, the Sampit, the Waccamaw, the Black and the Great Pee Dee, come together at Winyah Bay. English settlers asked the colonial government for a parish of their own, and by 1721 they had one, called Prince George, Winyah. In 1729 Elisha Screven laid out a town on the Sampit River as a grid four blocks by eight, and that grid still carries its first street names and lot numbers.

Planters around the town grew indigo first and rice second, on land worked by enslaved Africans and African Americans. After the Revolution rice took over, and enslaved laborers built dams, gates and canals to flood and drain the fields along the rivers. By 1840 the Georgetown District grew nearly half of the nation's rice, and its port shipped more rice than any other in the world. The crop never recovered after the Civil War ended slavery, and rice was grown commercially only until about 1910.

  • A school paid for in indigoIndigo brought such profits between 1735 and 1775 that the Winyah Indigo Society, whose members paid their dues in indigo, opened a school in 1757. It was the first public school for white children anywhere between Charles Town and Wilmington. The Winyah Indigo School joined the National Register in 1988.
  • A signer and the Swamp FoxThomas Lynch Jr., a Georgetown planter, signed the Declaration of Independence. In the last years of the war the town's port kept General Nathanael Greene's army supplied, while Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, led guerrilla raids nearby.
  • Joseph H. RaineyDuring Reconstruction, Joseph Haynes Rainey was among several African Americans from Georgetown who went to the state legislature for Georgetown County. In 1880 Republican African Americans and white Democrats agreed to a fusion arrangement for choosing officials, but Jim Crow laws later shut Black voters out of elections and office. Rainey's house in Georgetown joined the National Register in 1984.
  • The East Coast's biggest lumber millAs rice failed, the town turned to wood. By 1900 several lumber mills ran on the Sampit River, and the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company's mill here was the biggest on the East Coast. Historian Mac McAlister dates Georgetown's peak as a lumber port to around 1905. The company went bankrupt early in the Great Depression, which left almost everyone in town out of work.
  • The world's largest paper millJobs came back in 1936, when International Paper's Southern Kraft Division opened a mill in Georgetown after the lumber company's collapse. By 1944 that mill was the largest in the world.

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Names on the Georgetown map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks3

  • Country Club Estates
  • Steele Town
  • Maryville

Streets and roads143

  • South Fraser Street
  • Ocean Highway
  • Church Street
  • Highmarket Street
  • North Fraser Street
  • South Merriman Road
  • North Merriman Road
  • South Kaminski Street
  • Alex Alford Drive
  • Hill Street
  • Duke Street
  • South Bay Street
  • Aviation Boulevard
  • Dock Street
  • Loblolly Drive
  • County Road S-22-18
  • South Island Road
  • Prince Street
  • Front Street
  • Ridge Street
  • Old Charleston Road
  • Cravens Street
  • Winyah Street
  • Emanuel Street
  • North Congdon Street
  • Anthuan Maybank Drive
  • North Hazard Street
  • Ip Canal Road
  • Black River Road
  • Oak Street
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  • Greenwich Drive
  • Gilbert Street
  • East Bay Street
  • West Church Street
  • Wood Street
  • Palm Street
  • Washington Street
  • Huger Drive
  • Bayview Drive
  • Butts Street
  • South Hazard Street
  • Plantation Boulevard
  • Rion Street
  • Martin Street
  • Dargan Street
  • Meeting Street
  • Helena Street
  • Donham Avenue
  • Palmetto Street
  • Cannon Street
  • West Front Street
  • Orange Street
  • Queen Street
  • Bourne Street
  • Indigo Avenue
  • Oakley Street
  • Lafayette Street
  • Screven Street
  • Broad Street
  • King Street
  • Dozier Street
  • Golf Drive
  • Beck Street
  • Rainey Drive
  • Legion Street
  • Wayne Street
  • Pyatt Street
  • Grimes Street
  • Loril Street
  • Withers Street
  • Olive Street
  • Brave Drive
  • Lincoln Street
  • Ward Street
  • Leon Street
  • Park Street
  • Beaty Street
  • Horry Street
  • Mayer Street
  • Lee Street
  • Kaufman Street
  • Lynch Street
  • State Street
  • Fern Street
  • Tarbox Street
  • Oaks Bay Drive
  • Poplar Street
  • Hawkins Street
  • Saint James Street
  • Industrial Drive
  • Elizabeth Street
  • Oak Lawn Road
  • Cleland Street
  • Rosemary Street
  • South Congdon Street
  • Cedar Street
  • Whitton Street
  • Montford Road
  • Charlton Boulevard
  • Asbury Street
  • Hines Street
  • Marina Drive
  • Charlotte Street
  • Mary Hines Lane
  • Hampton Street
  • Rice Street
  • Greenwich Street
  • Sloan Street
  • Violet Street
  • Shade Street
  • Maple Street
  • Fogel Street
  • Falcon Street
  • Shop Wall
  • Farrelly Street
  • Ash Street
  • Birch Street
  • East Street
  • Merriman Road
  • Seaport Circle
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Lucas Street
  • Britt Street
  • Brinkley Street
  • Cuttino Street
  • Power Avenue
  • Commanders Island Road
  • Reservoir Street
  • Lakeside Drive
  • Collins Street
  • River Road
  • Harbor Street
  • West Street
  • Willowbank Road
  • Bonds Street
  • Lagrange Road
  • Tulip Street
  • River Walk Drive
  • Grain Field Drive
  • Cooper Street
  • Heirloom Way
  • Venture Drive
  • Pate Court

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