Galivants Ferry Historic District is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Galivants Ferry in
Horry County, South Carolina.
It encompasses 28 contributing buildings that reflect the agricultural heritage of Galivants Ferry and of the larger Pee Dee region. Included are tenant farmer houses, storage barns, tobacco packhouses, curing barns, and sheds. They include the home of the Holliday family and a church that sits at the edge of a long stretch of tobacco fields on Pee Dee Road. Also included is a
filling station (ca. 1922) along
U.S. Route 501
U.S. Route 501 (US 501) is a spur of U.S. Route 1. It runs 355 miles (571 km) from Buena Vista, Virginia at U.S. Route 60 to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at U.S. Route 17 Business.
It passes through the states of Virginia, North Carolina a ...
.
The two-story white brick John Monroe Johnson Holliday House was completed in 1950 and based on a house George Holliday built in the 1920s which burned in 1943. It is described as "owing much to the
Colonial Revival and
Greek Revival styles."
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Gallery
File:Galivants Ferry Historic District - John Monroe Johnson Holliday House Jun 10.JPG, John Monroe Johnson Holliday House
File:Galivants Ferry Historic District - Service Station Jun 10.JPG, Filling Station
File:Galivants Ferry Historic District - Grist Mill Jun 10.JPG, Grist Mill
File:Galivants Ferry Historic District - Barn Jun 10.JPG, Barn
References
External links
Galivants Ferry Historic District MapGalivants Ferry Historic District - Conway, South Carolina - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Horry County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Horry County, South Carolina
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