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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W9_methodists_Georgetown-SC.html
William Wayne, nephew of Revolutionary General Anthony Wayne, was converted here by Bishop Francis Asbury on February 24, 1785, and a Methodist congregation was formed later that year. Woolman Hickson was appointed minister. This is the site of an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TT_major-c-spencer-guerry_Georgetown-SC.html
After graduating from the University of South Carolina, C. Spencer Guerry began his law enforcement career on March 1, 1979, by joining the Georgetown Police Department. He rose through various positions of increasing responsibility until attainin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4SM_marquis-de-lafayette_Georgetown-SC.html
This tablet commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first landing of Marquis de Lafayette accompanied by Baron de Kalb on North Island, Georgetown County, S. C. June 13, 1777. He came to draw his sword for the young republic in the hour of her g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RN_town-clock-kaminski-building_Georgetown-SC.html
Town Clock: This Greek Revival market and town hall was built in 1842 after a fire destroyed many of the frame buildings on Front Street. An open-air market occupied the first floor and the town hall occupied the second floor; the clock tower and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R4_winyah-indigo-society_Georgetown-SC.html
Springing from the fervor for indigo, the colony's vital new crop for making blue dye, the Winyah Indigo Society was begun in 1755 and incorporated 1757 to ensure stronger financial support for the free school which it had founded. Thomas Lynch wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R2_south-carolina-champion-oak_Georgetown-SC.html
The live oak between houses 513 and 515 Prince Street is registered with The American Forestry Associates as a State Champion - South Carolina. In 1940 the tree was estimated to be over 500 years old, and it measured 23 feet in circumference, 120 …
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…
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