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Myrtle Beach State Park Turns 90 Table of Contents A Birthday Ninety Years in the Making The Boys in Green and Yellow: How the CCC Built South Carolina’s First State Park Nine Decades Spread Across a Picnic Table The Pier That Refuses to Stay Down One Mile of Beach the Way the Whole Coast Used to Be The Historical Goose Chase Runs All July Planning Your Visit: Hours, Admission and...

America Turns 250 on the Grand Strand: Your Complete Guide to the 2026 Semiquincentennial Celebrations Table of Contents Why the Grand Strand for America’s 250th Salute from the Shore: The Flyover That Starts at Cherry Grove Where to Watch Fireworks: Grand Strand Complete Guide North Myrtle Beach: A Full Day of Fourth Myrtle Beach: The Boardwalk and Beyond Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island: Lowcountry Fourth Georgetown’s Carolina Days: Nine Days...

Between the Waters: Hobcaw Barony, Bernard Baruch, FDR, and Churchill on the Grand Strand Table of Contents Between the Waters: The Land Before Baruch The Lone Wolf of Wall Street The Purchase: Fourteen Plantations, One Barony The Park Bench Statesman The Night Churchill Got Hit by a Car The President Comes to Hobcaw Belle: The Baroness of Hobcaw The Gift That Lasted Hobcaw Barony Today Frequently Asked Questions Thirty miles...

The Barber Who Changed America: Joseph Hayne Rainey and the Making of History in Georgetown, SC Table of Contents The Town That Made Him A Man Who Bought His World The War and the Escape The Bermuda Years Reconstruction and the Rise December 12, 1870 On the Floor of Congress The Gavel, the Twilight, and the End What Remains in Georgetown Frequently Asked Questions There is a house on Prince...

Tides of War: The Civil War Along the Grand Strand Table of Contents A Coast at War: The Grand Strand in 1861 Salt and Survival: The War’s Most Unglamorous Weapon Blockade Runners and Shadow Ports Fort Randall: Cushing’s Midnight Raid on Little River Murrells Inlet Under Fire Battery White: Georgetown’s Last Defense The Fall of Georgetown and the End of Slavery on the Waccamaw The Sinking of the USS Harvest...

Thomas Lynch Jr. — The Founding Father Born Just Down the Road from Myrtle Beach Table of Contents Fifty-Six Names — and One From Right Here Hopsewee: The Plantation Where It Began The Lynch Family: Georgetown’s Most Powerful Dynasty Sent to England: Eton, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple Home and the Coming Storm The Fever That Changed Everything Father and Son in Philadelphia: The Only Pair in Congress Signing the...

The Swamp Fox and Peter Horry: How the Revolution Was Fought on Grand Strand Ground Table of Contents South Carolina and the Revolution — A War Unlike Any Other May 12, 1780: Charleston Falls and Everything Changes Retreat to Little River: Marion Comes to the Grand Strand The Guerrilla War Begins: Blue Savannah and the First Victories Kingston, Black Mingo, and the Fight for the Georgetown District How the Swamp...

The Road That Built America — And Still Runs Through North Myrtle Beach Table of Contents A Road Hiding in Plain Sight Origins: From Native Trail to the King’s Road Building the Road Through the Grand Strand The Boundary House: Where the Revolution Arrived in South Carolina Washington Plans the Southern Tour April 27, 1791: The President Crosses Into South Carolina The Night at the Vereen Plantation April 28: Onto...

Pirates, Planters, and the Birth of the Grand Strand (1526–1775) Table of Contents A Coast Older Than the Country The Waccamaw: The First People of the Strand Spain Arrives: The 1526 Landing at Winyah Bay The Golden Age of Piracy: Blackbeard, Bonnet, and Drunken Jack Georgetown Is Born: The Third Oldest City in South Carolina Indigo: The Blue Dye That Built the First Fortunes Carolina Gold: The Rice That Made...