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The Georgetown County Museum
632 Prince Street
Georgetown, South Carolina
(843) 545-7020
E-Mail the Historical Society
In the
heart of the Historic District is the Georgetown County
Museum preserving and displaying more than 300 years of
history and culture. Examine Native American artifacts
of the Waccamaw, Peedee, and Sampit
tribes. Get a close look at relics of local plantation
culture - clothing and toys, slave bills of sales used
by local rice planters, and much more. Read for yourself
a recently discovered letter written by Revolutionary
War Patriot General Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox).
Learn about the rice culture, the thriving lumber
industry, the making of paper from our Southern yellow
pine trees. You'll be glad you came!
Museum Hours:
Tues - Sat. 10am - 5pm
Members admitted free
Non-Members:
Under 6 yrs. - Free
6 - 18 yrs. - $2.00
19 - 64 yrs. - $4.00
65 yrs & over - $3.00
Special rates for groups.
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South Carolina's third
oldest city is arguably the area believed where American
history began. Some historians claim that in 1526, Lucas
Vasquez de Allyon founded a Spanish colony on the
Waccamaw Neck in Georgetown County, representing this
first recorded settlement of Europeans in North America.
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Pictured
above is Bernard Baruch and Winston Churchill, with
their respective daughters Belle and Diana, taken in
1932 at Baruch's Hobcaw Barony in Georgetown. Georgetown
has been host to many distinguished leaders including
Presidents Washington, Monroe, Van Buren, Cleveland and
F.D. Roosevelt.
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