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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4QB_georgetown-county-courthouse_Georgetown-SC.html
This courthouse, designed by prominent architect andSouth Carolina nativeRobert Mills (1781-1855),was built in 1823-24 to replace a courthouse which had been damaged by two hurricanes. Mills himself,who also designed the Washington Monument, calle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PQ_screven-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
Here are buried William Screven (1624-1713) and other members of his family. A native of England, he migrated to Kittery, Me., and was persecuted by New England authorities for non-conformity. He and other members of the Kittery Church came to S.C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PG_william-doyle-morgan-house_Georgetown-SC.html
732 Prince Street was the home of William Doyle Morgan (1853-1938), mayor 1891-1906 and the catalyst for much of Georgetown's growth and prosperity by the turn of the century. He helped give the city what one observer called "the snap and vim of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NF_joseph-hayne-rainey_Georgetown-SC.html
This National Historic Landmark was the family home of Joseph H. Rainey, the first African American elected to the US House of Representatives, 1870-1879. Born in Georgetown County in 1832, Rainey, it is said, made blockade-running trips during th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4M0_sergeant-mcdonald_Georgetown-SC.html
Here Sgt. McDonald bayoneted the fleeing Maj. Gainey, following the defeat of the Tories under Major Gainey by the Americans under Col. Peter Horry. This bloody skirmish took place, January, 1781, between the Sampit and the Black River roads.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KM_georgetown_Georgetown-SC.html
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. 15, 1705, and deeded by him, Jan. 18, 1734, to George Pawley, William Swinton, and Daniel La Roche, Trustees. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KL_prince-george-winyah-church_Georgetown-SC.html
Parish founded 1721. Present church erected about 1750. Aided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, London. Occupied by British forces during the Revolution.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4KG_prince-georges-parish-church-winyah_Georgetown-SC.html
Prince George's Parish, Winyah, was created March 10, 1721, and the parish church erected on Black River, 1726, at the present Brown's Ferry. After Prince Frederick's Parish was formed from Prince George's, April 9, 1734, the parish church was ere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4FU_bethel-church_Georgetown-SC.html
This African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County. It was established by the Rev. A. T. Carr shortly after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. The church purchased this property…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45M_kaminski-house-museum_Georgetown-SC.html
Dating back to the 1700s, the Kaminski House contains one of the finest collections in English and American antiques and furnishings in South Carolina. The original structure with beaded clapboard siding was built around 1769 by Paul Trapier, a pr…
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