Georgetown, South Carolina Georgetown, South Carolina Georgetown harbor Location in Georgetown County and the state of South Carolina.
Location in Georgetown County and the state of South Carolina.
County Georgetown The Harborwalk in Georgetown A glimpse of downtown Georgetown north from the Francis Marion Park Georgetown is the third earliest town/city in the U.S.
State of South Carolina and the governmental center of county of Georgetown County, in the Lowcountry. As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 9,163. Located on Winyah Bay at the confluence of the Black, Great Pee Dee, Waccamaw, and Sampit rivers, Georgetown is the second biggest seaport in South Carolina, handling over 960,000 tons of materials a year.
Looking at Georgetown from the point in East Bay Park Georgetown is positioned at 33 22 3 N 79 17 38 W (33.367434, -79.293807). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.5 square miles (19.5 km2), of which 6.9 square miles (17.9 km2) are territory and 0.62 square miles (1.6 km2), or 8.06%, is water. Routes 17, 17 - A, 521, and 701 meet in the center of Georgetown.
As of the census of 2010, there were 9,163 citizens in Georgetown, an increase of 2.4 percent over the 2000 populace of 8,950.
Georgetown is situated in a unique place in American history.
Prince George Parish, Winyah then encompassed the new town of Georgetown on the Sampit River.
In 1729, Elisha Screven laid the plan for Georgetown and advanced the town/city in a four-by-eight block grid.
The initial grid town/city is listed as a historic precinct on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Indian trade declined soon after Georgetown was established; and planters cultivated indigo as the cash commodity crop with rice as a secondary crop, both dependent on slave labor, primarily imported workers from Africa. Agricultural profits were so great between 1735 and 1775 that in 1757 the Winyah Indigo Society, whose members paid dues in indigo, opened and maintained the first enhance school for white kids between Charles Town and Wilmington.
In the American Revolution, the father and son Georgetown planters, Thomas Lynch Sr.
During the final years of the conflict, Georgetown was the meaningful port for supplying General Nathanael Greene's army.
Winyah Indigo Society Hall, Georgetown Large rice plantations were established around Georgetown on its five rivers.
By 1840, the Georgetown District (later County) produced nearly one-half of the total rice crop of the United States, and became the biggest rice-exporting port in the world.
Wealth from the rice created an elite European-American planter class; they assembled stately plantation manor homes, bought elegant furniture, and extended generous hospitality to the rest of their class.
Their mostly leisured lifestyle for a select several, assembled on the workforce of thousands of slaves, lasted until 1860. The profits from Georgetown's rice trade reached close-by Charleston, where a grow mercantile economy developed.
Joshua John Ward, who owned the most slaves in the US eventually more than 1,000 slaves on a several plantations, lived in Georgetown.
The town's grow economy long thriving pioneer from elsewhere, including various planters and shipowners who migrated to Georgetown from Virginia.
These encompassed the Shackelford family, whose migrant ancestor John Shackelford moved to Georgetown in the eighteenth century after serving in the Virginia forces of the Continental Army.
His descendants became prominent planters, lawyers, judges and Georgetown and Charleston businessmen. During the Civil War, a Confederate fort and two camps were positioned near Georgetown, by Murrells Inlet.
Confederate Camp Lookout and Camp Waccamaw were also positioned near Georgetown.
Arcadia Plantation, about 1893, Georgetown vicinity, Georgetown County Georgetown and Georgetown County suffered terribly amid the Reconstruction Era, as agriculture was low nationally.[clarification needed] In addition, the rice crops of 1866 88 were failures due to lack of capital preventing adequate preparation for new crops, inclement weather, and the planters' struggle to negotiate dealing with no-charge workforce and a shortage of labor.
The biggest was the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company; its foundry in Georgetown was the biggest lumber foundry on the East Coast at the time.
In 2012, historian Mac Mc - Alister said that around 1905, "Georgetown reached its peak as a lumber port." Like most cities, Georgetown suffered economic deprivation amid the Great Depression.
A primary disaster hit the region in September 1989: Hurricane Hugo hit south of Georgetown, but with extremely difficult winds and an intense storm surge that damaged Georgetown along with close-by areas.
As Georgetown was under Hugo's northern eyewall, it suffered winds more harsh and damaging than in Charleston, which was in the hurricane's weak corridor.
The steel foundry was financed in 1993 by Bain Capital and was called Georgetown Steel, which became GST Steel Company with its sister Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company plant in Kansas City, Missouri.
The business declared bankruptcy in 2001, method the Kansas City plant, and then method the South Carolina plant in 2003.
The Georgetown plant has later reopened under ownership of Arcelor - Mittal.
Georgetown has a number of historic churches, including Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church, the earliest theological body in Georgetown.
Georgetown has been the destination of many prominent citizens throughout the nearly 277 years of the city's life.
Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, made her home at the Oaks Plantation (now part of Brookgreen Gardens) after her marriage to Joseph Alston in 1801; she departed from Georgetown on her ill-fated voyage in 1812.
Today, the Georgetown Historic District contains more than fifty homes, enhance buildings and sites which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Other sites on the National Register include Annandale Plantation, Arcadia Plantation, Battery White, Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney, Beneventum Plantation House, Black River Plantation House, Brookgreen Gardens, Chicora Wood Plantation, Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney, Friendfield Plantation, Georgetown Light, Hobcaw Barony, Hopsewee, Keithfield Plantation, Mansfield Plantation, Milldam Rice Mill and Rice Barn, Minim Island Shell Midden (38 - GE46), Nightingale Hall Rice Mill Chimney, Old Market Building, Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District, Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church, Joseph H.
Rainey House, Rural Hall Plantation House, Weehaw Rice Mill Chimney, Wicklow Hall Plantation, and Winyah Indigo School. Pyatt House, Georgetown a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Georgetown city, South Carolina".
Indigo manufacturing in British India soon eclipsed the manufacturing of indigo in the Carolinas, and rice took its place as a staple crop.
Yates Snowden, Harry Gardner Cutler, History of South Carolina, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1920 Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Georgetown (South Carolina).
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