Georgetown is the third oldest city in the
U.S. state
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of
South Carolina
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and the
county seat
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of
Georgetown County, in the
Lowcountry
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.
As of the
2010 census it had a population of 9,163.
Located on
Winyah Bay at the confluence of the
Black
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,
Great Pee Dee,
Waccamaw, and
Sampit rivers, Georgetown is the second largest
seaport
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in South Carolina, handling over 960,000 tons of materials a year, while
Charleston is the largest.
Beginning in the colonial era, Georgetown was the commercial center of an
indigo
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- and rice-producing area. Rice replaced indigo as the chief commodity crop in the antebellum era. A timber industry also developed and sawmills were built.
Geography
Georgetown is located at (33.367434, −79.293807).
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 8.06%, is water.
Winyah Bay formed from a
submergent or drowned coastline. The original rivers had a lower
baseline, but either the ocean rose or the land sank, flooding the river valleys and making a good location for a harbor.
U.S. Routes
17,
17A,
521, and
701
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meet in the center of Georgetown. US 17 leads southwest to
Charleston and northeast to
Myrtle Beach
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, US 701 leads north to
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, US 521 leads northwest to
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, and US 17A leads west to
Jamestown.
Climate
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 United States census, there were 8,403 people, 3,649 households, and 2,256 families residing in the city.
2010 and 2000 censuses
As of the
census
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of 2010, there were 9,163 people in Georgetown, an increase of 2.4 percent over the 2000 population of 8,950. In 2000, there were 3,411 households, and 2,305 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,856 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 57.03%
African American
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(56.7 percent in 2010), 40.99%
White
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(37.8 percent in 2010), 0.12%
Native American, 0.31%
Asian, 0.04%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.84% from
other races, and 0.66% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino of any race were 1.88% of the population.
There were 3,411 households, out of which 32.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.0% were married couples living together, 25.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.4% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.14.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,424, and the median income for a family was $34,747. Males had a median income of $27,545 versus $19,000 for females. The
per capita income
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for the city was $14,568. About 19.9% of families and 24.1% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 34.9% of those under age 18 and 16.9% of those age 65 or over.
History
Pre-Revolution
In 1526 a
Spanish expedition under
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón founded a colony on
Waccamaw Neck called
San Miguel de Guadalupe. The settlers included enslaved Africans, and was the first European settlement in North America with African slaves. The colony failed for multiple reasons, including a fever
epidemic
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and a revolt of the slaves. The Africans escaped and joined members of the indigenous
Cofitachequi chiefdom in the area, people of the late
Mississippian culture
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.
The next settlement in the area was made by English colonists. After settling
Charles Town in 1670, the
English established trade with regional
Indian tribes. Trading posts in outlying areas quickly developed as settlements.
By 1721 the colonial government granted the English residents' petition to found a new parish,
Prince George, Winyah, on the
Black River. In 1734, Prince George, Winyah was divided; and the newly created
Prince Frederick Parish congregation occupied the church at Black River. Prince George Parish, Winyah encompassed the new town of Georgetown that was developing on the
Sampit River.
In 1729,
Elisha Screven laid the plan for Georgetown and developed the city in a four-by-eight block grid. The original grid city is listed as a
historic district
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on the
National Register of Historic Places
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. It bears the original street names, lot numbers, and has many original homes.
Soon after Georgetown was established, the Indian trade declined. Many traders made longer trips to the interior of the upper rivers, for instance to Cherokee Country. In the Lowcountry, plantation owners developed large plantations and cultivated
indigo
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as the cash commodity crop, with
rice
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as a secondary crop. Both were labor-intensive and dependent on
enslaved Africans and African Americans, the former imported from
Africa
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in the
Atlantic slave trade
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. Agricultural profits were so great between 1735 and 1775 that in 1757 the
Winyah Indigo Society, whose members paid dues in indigo, opened and maintained the first
public school for white children between
Charles Town and
Wilmington. By the early 19th century, rice replaced indigo as the chief commodity crop. It became a staple of regional diets as well, becoming characteristic in the area.
In the
American Revolution
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, the Georgetown planter,
Thomas Lynch Jr., signed the
Declaration of Independence
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. During the final years of the conflict, Georgetown was the important port for supplying General
Nathanael Greene
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's army.
Francis Marion
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(the "Swamp Fox") led many
guerrilla
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actions in the vicinity.
Antebellum period

Georgetown had a large population of Jewish-Americans in the early 1800s. Following the American Revolution, rice surpassed indigo as the staple crop. It was cultivated in the swampy lowlands along the rivers, where enslaved African and African-American laborers built large
earthworks: dams, gates and canals to irrigate and drain the rice fields during cultivation. Large rice plantations were established around Georgetown along its five rivers. Planters often had chosen to import slaves from rice-growing regions of West Africa, as they knew the technology for cultivation and processing.
By 1840, the
Georgetown District (later County) produced nearly one-half of the total rice crop of the United States. It became the largest rice-exporting port in the world. Wealth from the rice created an elite European-American planter class; they built stately plantation manor houses and often also had townhouses in the city, bought elegant furniture and other furnishings, and extended generous hospitality to others of their class. Their relatively leisured lifestyle for a select few, built on the labor of thousands of slaves, was disrupted by the Civil War. Afterward the abolition of slavery and transformation to a free labor market in the South so changed the economics of rice production as to make the labor-intensive process unprofitable. The soft silt soil of the South Carolina low country required harvesting rice by hand. In addition, the disruption and destruction of the war delayed the resumption of agriculture in the South. Nationally, the economy struggled in the 1870s, adding to pressures on agriculture.

In the antebellum years, the profits from Georgetown's rice trade also buoyed the economy of the nearby city and port of Charleston, where a thriving mercantile economy developed. With profits from rice, planters bought products from Charleston artisans: fine furniture, jewelry, and silver, to satisfy their refined tastes.
Joshua John Ward was a planter who owned the most slaves in the US – eventually more than 1,000 slaves on several plantations; he lived in a townhouse in Georgetown.
Many of the historic plantation houses are still standing today, including
Mansfield Plantation on the banks of the
Black River. Joshua Ward's main
Brookgreen Plantation is the center and namesake of the
Brookgreen Gardens park. Since the late 20th century, historic societies and independent plantations have worked to present more of the entire plantation society, including the lives and skills of enslaved African Americans.
Georgetown's thriving economy long attracted settlers from elsewhere, including numerous planters and shipowners who migrated from
Virginia
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. These included the Shackelford family, whose migrant ancestor John Shackelford moved to Georgetown in the late eighteenth century after serving in the Virginia forces of the
Continental Army
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during the American Revolution. His descendants became prominent planters, lawyers, judges and businessmen in Georgetown and Charleston.
During the
Civil War
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, the
Confederate army built a fort and installed two camps near Georgetown at
Murrells Inlet. Fort Ward was in service beginning in 1861, but it was abandoned and disarmed in March 1862. Its exact location is unknown due to shifting sandbars and erosion in the area. Confederate camps Lookout and Waccamaw were also located near Georgetown. Camp Waccamaw was in use from 1862 until 1864; Company E, 4th SC Cavalry were garrisoned at the camp. At least one soldier died there in 1862, probably from disease.
Additional fortifications were built at
Battery White, located south of the town to protect the harbor and Winyah Bay. Construction during 1862-1863 on the cannon emplacement resulted in a well-built and situated set of fortifications which did not see action until 1864 when it was captured by Union Forces.
Reconstruction and post-reconstruction period

Georgetown and Georgetown County suffered terribly during the
Reconstruction Era
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because of its reliance on agriculture, for which the national market was low. The rice crops of 1866 to 1888 were failures due to lack of capital, which prevented adequate preparation for new crops; inclement weather; and the planters' struggle to find laborers.
Several African Americans from Georgetown represented Georgetown County in the state legislature during the Reconstruction era including
Joseph Haynes Rainey,
Bruce H. Williams,
Charles H. Sperry,
Charles Samuel Green, and
James A. Bowley. A fusion arrangement was reached in 1880 and Republican African Americans and white Democrats appointed officials.
Some
freedmen
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left the area in an effort to reunite families separated by the domestic slave trade. Many families withdrew women and children from working as field laborers. Many freedmen families wanted to work for themselves as
subsistence farmers
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, rather than work in gangs for major plantation owners. Rice continued to be grown commercially until about 1910, but the market had changed. It was never as important economically or as profitable a crop as before 1860.
By the time the Reconstruction period ended, the area's economy was shifting to harvesting and processing wood products. By 1900 several lumber mills were operating on the
Sampit River. The largest was the
Atlantic Coast Lumber Company Atlantic Coast Lumber Company was formed in 1899 when the potential value of the vast amounts of standing timber in the Pee Dee River watershed was discovered by a group of Northern lumbermen. Options were taken by the company on this timber and th ...
; its mill in Georgetown was the largest lumber mill on the
East Coast at the time.
In 1900, a Georgetown constable's efforts to arrest barber
John Brownfield for refusing to pay a poll tax resulted in a scuffle and his death in a shooting. White supremacists called for lynching and a tense period followed including appeals of Brownfield's murder conviction by an all-white jury with ties to the deceased and his family.
20th century
Around 1905, "Georgetown reached its peak as a lumber port", according to the historian Mac McAlister. Jim Crow laws excluded African Americans from taking part in elections and from holding office.
As the twentieth century dawned, Georgetown under the leadership of Mayor
William Doyle Morgan began to modernize. The city added electricity, telephone service, sewer facilities, rail connections, some paved streets and sidewalks, new banks, a thriving port, and a new public school for white students. Public schools were segregated and black schools were historically underfunded. The US government built a handsome combination post office and customs house.
Like most cities, Georgetown suffered economic deprivation during the
Great Depression
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. The
Atlantic Coast Lumber Company Atlantic Coast Lumber Company was formed in 1899 when the potential value of the vast amounts of standing timber in the Pee Dee River watershed was discovered by a group of Northern lumbermen. Options were taken by the company on this timber and th ...
went bankrupt early in the depression, putting almost everyone out of work. Businesses related to the mills also lost revenues and had to lay off employees, with a cascading effect through the city. In 1936 help arrived, when the Southern Kraft Division of
International Paper
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History
The company was incorporated January 31 ...
opened a mill; by 1944 it was the largest in the world.
From the mid-20th century, the city developed more industry. In 1973, the
Korf company of Germany founded a
steel mill
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in town. in 1993, the steel mill was financed by
Bain Capital
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and was called Georgetown Steel, which became GST Steel Company with its sister
Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company plant in
Kansas City, Missouri
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.
In 1978, Sigma Chemical Company founded its third chemical plant (the other 2 being in Italy) in Georgetown.
In September 1989, a major disaster struck the area with
Hurricane Hugo
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struck south of Georgetown. Its extremely hard winds and an intense
storm surge
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along the rivers flooded and damaged Georgetown and nearby areas. As Georgetown was under Hugo's northern
eyewall, it suffered winds more severe and damaging than in
Charleston, which was in the hurricane's weak corridor.
2000 to present
In recent years, the economy has become more diversified. The GST Steel Company declared bankruptcy in 2001, first closing the Kansas City plant. In 2003 it closed the South Carolina plant. The Georgetown plant has subsequently reopened under ownership of
ArcelorMittal
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. Due to the influx of cheap foreign steel into the United States, the plant closed its doors again in August 2015.
On May 19, 2017, Mayor Jack Scoville announced that ArcelorMittal had agreed to sell the mill to Liberty Steel.
On September 25, 2013, a fire engulfed seven historic buildings on 700 Block of Front Street. The fire raged for hours while over 200 firefighters from ten departments and the
United States Coast Guard
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fought to contain the blaze.
Heritage tourism
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has become a booming business in Georgetown, supporting much retail activity. In addition, many retirees have chosen to settle in this area of beaches, plantations redeveloped as residential communities, and pleasant climate. From 2016 to 2021, housing prices in Georgetown have risen 38 percent.
On January 18, 2018, long-time Democratic City Councilman Brendon Moses Barber, Sr. was inaugurated as Mayor of Georgetown; he is the first African-American mayor of the city. The City of Georgetown has always elected Democratic mayors, even as the make-up of the major parties has realigned since the late 20th century.
As of 2019, brackish water incursions into the Waccamaw River near Georgetown due to Sea level rise, rising sea levels are increasing the risk of exposure to toxic vibrio bacteria.
In the 2021 municipal elections, Georgetown elected its first Republican-majority city council in its history. On January 3, 2022, city councilwoman Carol Jayroe was sworn in as the Mayor of Georgetown, having defeated incumbent Democratic mayor Brendon Barber. She is the first woman and the first Republican to hold the mayoralty in Georgetown’s history.
In September 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall near Georgetown. On October 31, 2024,
International Paper
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History
The company was incorporated January 31 ...
announced the closing of their Georgetown plant by the end of 2024, causing the loss of 526 hourly jobs and 148 salaried employees.
Registered historic sites
Today, the Georgetown Historic District (Georgetown, South Carolina), Georgetown Historic District contains more than fifty homes, public buildings, and sites listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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. Other sites on the National Register include Annandale Plantation (Georgetown County, South Carolina), Annandale Plantation, Arcadia Plantation,
Battery White, Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney, Beneventum Plantation House, Black River Plantation House,
Brookgreen Gardens, Chicora Wood Plantation, Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney, Friendfield Plantation, Georgetown Light, Hobcaw Barony, Hopsewee, Keithfield Plantation,
Mansfield Plantation, Milldam Rice Mill and Rice Barn, Minim Island Shell Midden (38GE46), Nightingale Hall Rice Mill Chimney, Old Market Building (Georgetown, South Carolina), Old Market Building, Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District, Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church, Joseph H. Rainey House, Rural Hall Plantation House, Weehaw Rice Mill Chimney, Wicklow Hall Plantation, and Winyah Indigo School.
Education
Georgetown High School (South Carolina), Georgetown High School is in Georgetown. Georgetown has a public library, a branch of the Georgetown County Library.
Notable people
* Mary Fleming Black (1848-1893), author and religious worker
* Anna Peyre Dinnies (1807–1886), poet, miscellaneous writer
* Jumpy Geathers, football player for the Wichita State Shockers football, Wichita State Shockers, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, and Denver Broncos. He was a 2× Super Bowl Champion.
* Robert ”Dab” Geathers Sr. NFL football player, older brother of Jumpy Geathers.
* Robert Geathers Jr. NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals,) son of Robert Geathers Sr.
* Clifton Geathers NFL football player various NFL teams including Washington Redskins, son of Robert Geathers Sr.
* Kwame Geathers University Of Georgia football, NFL football player various NFL teams including The San Diego Chargers, son of Robert Geathers Sr.
* Clayton Geathers University Of Central Florida football, NFL football player (Indianapolis Colts,) nephew of Robert and Jumpy Geathers
* Donovan Richard NFL football player (Jacksonville Jaguars)
* Tyrell Richard US track runner and medalist, younger brother of Donovan Richard
* Melissa Jefferson (athlete), Melissa Jefferson, sprinter and 2024 Summer Olympics gold and bronze medalist
* Marley Canteen singer, songwriter, viral social media star, photographer (featured in several major publications) and LGBTQ activist
* Dasean Jones (born 1978), United States district judge
* Ruston Kelly, singer-songwriter
* Joseph Rainey (1832–1887) politician and first African-American member of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives
References
External links
City of Georgetown official websiteGeorgetown County Chamber of Commerce''Georgetown Times'' a thrice weekly newspaper founded in 1798
Georgetown CountyGeorgetown County-Hammock Coast TourismWinyah Bay marine and aquatic research
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