Franklin G. Burroughs (Dec 28 1834

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– 1897) was an American

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and naval entrepreneur who, along with

Benjamin Grier Collins Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

, founded the Burroughs and Collins company, later known as Burroughs and Chapin. The company was a major catalyst in growing the

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area in

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and continues to play a major role in its economics. H.H. Woodward wrote in his obituary of Benjamin Collins that Burroughs moved to

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and "established on the hill beyond the deep gully a country store with turpentine stills.” Collins moved to Conway after the

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and drove a turpentine wagon for Burroughs. They became business partners and opened stores around

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, with the Gully Store in Conway the largest. In the mid-1890s the men incorporated Burroughs and Collins Company which had an office on Main Street in Conway. In 1874, Burroughs and Collins built a

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in Conway. According to Charles Joyner, Horry County was a major producer of turpentine in the years 1850 to 1880. The plentiful

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forests that had made this possible were gone. Joyner wrote that the producers of turpentine had leased their land rather than buying it, and as turpentine production moved to other states, Burroughs and Collins bought "enormous tracts of coastal property".

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SC Business Hall of Fame Entry
People from Martin County, North Carolina 1834 births 1897 deaths People from Conway, South Carolina 19th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1830s-stub