Meetings of the
Horry County Historical Society
Date - Sunday, July 13, 2008
Time - 3:00 PM
Place - Conway Library (meeting room), Main Street.
Program: Veronica Gerald will speak on the Gullah culture.
Date - Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time - 10:00 AM
Place - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Program - Spring Tour 2008
We will meet at the Withers Memorial Cemetery near the junction of Wither Swash Drive and Collins Street in Myrtle Beach off of 3rd Ave. S. where IRQ editor Chyrel Stalvey will speak about the Withers and other early families of the area.
We will continue on to The Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum and Education Center at 900 Dunbar Street , Myrtle Beach , SC (on the corner of Mr. Joe White Blvd. and Dunbar St .)
Parking is limited so unless you are severely handicapped please park around the corner at Mt. Olive AME Church at 1108 Carver St. and walk around to the school.
After the visit and presentation at the school we will return to the Mt. Olive Fellowship Hall for a presentation on the history of Sandy Grove Baptist Church and the Centennial of Mt. Olive AME Church followed by lunch in the fellowship hall.
Please bring a covered dish to share with other members of the society and guests. Drinks will be provided.
Date - Sunday, January 13, 2008
Time - 3:00 PM
Place - Conway Library (meeting room), Main Street.
Program - Philip Vanderbilt Brady of Georgetown will speak at the 3 pm, January 13 meeting of HCHS at Conway Library. Brady has traveled extensively to research the Flagg and Alston families of 18th and 19th century Waccamaw Neck and will speak on their connections to his Vanderbilt ancestors, who purchased Arcadia Plantation more than a century ago. Brady's program will entertain and enlighten the audience as he relates details of these wealthy families who lived on Georgetown County rice plantations, some of whose descendants still live in this area. This meeting is free and open to the public.
Date - Sunday, September 30, 2007
Time - 3:00 PM
Place - Conway Library (meeting room), Main Street.
Program: Two new pictorial histories of the area will be presented:
AUTHORS SUSAN HOFFER MCMILLAN AND SELDEN BAKER “BUD” HILL WILL PRESENT MCCLELLANVILLE AND THE ST. JAMES, SANTEE PARISH , PULISHED IN DECEMBER 2006, AND MCMILLAN WILL ALSO PRESENT MYRTLE BEACH AND THE GRAND STRAND, THEN AND NOW , PUBLISHED IN AUGUST 2007. BOTH BOOKS WERE PUBLISHED BY ARCADIA PUBLISHING, THE COUNTRY'S LEADING PUBLISHER OF PICTORIAL HISTORIES. THE AUTHORS WILL NARRATE A SLIDE SHOW OF IMAGES FROM THEIR BOOKS, RELATING HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE SITES.
MCMILLAN IS A CONWAY RESIDENT AND SERVES AS VICE PRESIDENT OF HORRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. SHE HAS WRITTEN FIVE PICTORIAL HISTORIES OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA , THREE OF WHICH FOCUS ON MYRTLE BEACH AND HORRY COUNTY . IN HER LATEST VOLUME, MCMILLAN CONTRASTS CURRENT GRAND STRAND LANDMARKS WITH EARLIER SAME-SITE STRUCTURES, EXPLAINING THE TRANSITION OF THESE PROPERTIES FROM THEIR HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE MEGA-STRUCTURES DOMINATING THE STRAND TODAY.
HILL IS FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE ACCLAIMED VILLAGE MUSEUM IN MCCLELLANVILLE, A PICTURESQUE, CREEKSIDE TOWN SITUATED 60 MILES SOUTH OF CONWAY . HILL TRACES HIS MCCLELLANVILLE ANCESTRY TO THE TOWN'S ANTEBELLUM ROOTS. HE IS EDITOR AND A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR TO ORIGINS , THE VILLAGE MUSEUM 'S NEWSLETTER. THE MCCLELLANVILLE BOOK EXPLAINS THE TOWN'S HISTORIC PROPERTIES AND NEARBY PARISH PLANTATIONS, INCLUDING PROMINENT AREA RESIDENTS BEGINNING WITH THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. SEVERAL HORRY COUNTY FAMILIES MIGRATED TO MCCLELLANVILLE AND IMPACTED ITS HISTORY. WIDELY RECOGNIZED FOR ITS HISTORIC CHARACTER, MCCLELLANVILLE IS NOW SUPPORTED BY SEAFOOD INDUSTRIES.
Date - Sunday, July 8, 2007
Time - 3:00 PM
Place - Conway Library (meeting room), Main Street.
Program - “Obsolete Coins, Currency and Tokens of Horry County” will be discussed by Dr. Frank Sanders. Sanders is a local historian and retired optometrist who was instrumental in forming the Horry County Historic Preservation Commission, precursor to the Horry County Museum . His program will offer viewers a glimpse of the county's past when timber and turpentine were its economic focus, and when Myrtle Beach was in its infancy.
Spring Tour 2007:
Date - Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time - 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Place - Meet at Yauhannh Bluff on Peedee River at 10 AM where Craig Sasser will discuss the history of the bluff and future plans for it. At 10:20 we will depart and head on to Mansfield Plantation on the Black River where Susan McMillan and Chris Boyle will give us a tour of the grounds and talk about archaeological research now going on there. At 12:30 we will head back up Hwy. 701 and pass by the ruins of old Prince Frederick Church, "old Gunn Church", on the Plantersville Road. We will go to Furman & Ann Long's home, on property that was once part of Guendalos Plantation, on the Pee Dee River where we will have a "box lunch" picnic. At 2:00 we depart and then stop at Prince Frederick's Chapel in Plantersville which has been carefully restored. If you would like a "box lunch", you must sign up and pay ahead of time. Be prepared for much walking at Mansfield. Click here for more information about the tour.
Date - Sunday, January 14, 2007
Time - 3:00 PM
Place - Conway Library - meeting room.
Program - Mr. James Vernon Epps, Curator of the Moore Memorial Museum in Lake City, will speak about the life of Gen. Francis Marion.
Pictures from the 1/14/07 meeting.
Date - Monday, October 16, 2006
Time - 7:00 PM
Place - Meeting room at the new Conway Library on Main Street, Conway.
Program - Ben Burroughs will show a "powerpoint presentation" of historical sites in Conway. Afterwards, there will be a discussion on Revolutionary War activity in the Horry County area.
Spring Tour 2006:
Date - Saturday, June 10, 2006
Time - 10AM - 2PM
Place - Little River area of Horry County, SC.
Pictures of Spring Tour 2006