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Georgetown County, South Carolina

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41historic places

—earliest paper

1868formed

63,404pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 41 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Georgetown, Pawleys Island, Murrells Inlet.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

19 of 41 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

41 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Waccamaw	Pawleys Island	District	1991
Annandale Plantation	Georgetown	Building	1973
Arcadia Plantation	Georgetown	Building	1978
Atalaya NHL	Murrells Inlet	Building	1984
Battery White	Georgetown	Structure	1977
Belle Isle Rice Mill Chimney	Georgetown	District	1988
Beneventum Plantation House	Georgetown	Building	1988
Black River Plantation House	Georgetown	Building	1994
Brookgreen Gardens	Georgetown	District	1978
Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel	Pawleys Island	Building	1991
Chicora Wood Plantation	Georgetown	Building	1973
Fairfield Rice Mill Chimney	Georgetown	Structure	1988
Friendfield Plantation	Georgetown	District	1996
Georgetown Historic District	Georgetown	District	1971
Georgetown Lighthouse	Georgetown	Structure	1974
Hobcaw Barony	Georgetown	District	1994
Holy Cross Faith Memorial School	Pawleys Island	Building	2024
Hopsewee NHL	Georgetown	Building	1971
Keithfield Plantation	Georgetown	District	1988
Mansfield Plantation	Georgetown	Building	1977
Milldam Rice Mill and Rice Barn	Georgetown	District	1988
Minim Island Shell Midden (38GE46)	Georgetown	Site	1982
Murrells Inlet Historic District	Murrells Inlet	District	1980
Nightingale Hall Rice Mill Chimney	Georgetown	Structure	1988
Old Market Building	Georgetown	Building	1969
Parrish's Motor Court	Murrells Inlet	Building	2017
Pawleys Island Historic District	Pawleys Island	District	1972
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Georgetown	District	1988
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Pawleys Island	District	2020
Pleasant Hill Consolidated School	Hemingway	Building	1998
Prince Frederick's Chapel Ruins	Plantersville	Site	1974
Prince George Winyah Church (Episcopal) and Cemetery	Georgetown	Building	1971
Rainey, Joseph H., House NHL	Georgetown	Building	1984
Richmond Hill Plantation Archeological Sites	Murrell's Inlet	Site	1988
Rural Hall Plantation House	Georgetown	Building	1988
Sandy Island School	Sandy Island	Building	2020
Summer Chapel Rectory, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church	Plantersville	Building	1988
Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church	Plantersville	Building	1988
Weehaw Rice Mill Chimney	Georgetown	Structure	1988
Wicklow Hall Plantation	Georgetown	Building	1978
Winyah Indigo School	Georgetown	Building	1988

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Georgetown was formed in 1868 (1868-04-16) from unknown / original county.

Georgetown District became GEORGETOWN County under new state constitution. All judicial districts converted to counties, all existing counties continued, and counties assumed all functions of local government from both judicial districts and parishes.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Georgetown County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
22,122	22,938	17,603	18,274	21,305	19,613	22,846	21,716	26,352	31,762	34,798	42,461	55,797	63,404

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

14 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
All Saints Cemetery	33.46738	-79.14004
Baptist Cemetery	33.37044	-79.27783
Bethel Cemetery	33.43238	-79.48367
Hucks Field Cemetery	33.64183	-79.26644
Jerusalem Cemetery	33.74211	-79.35644
Jewish Cemetery	33.36988	-79.27977
Mount Zion Cemetery	33.24905	-79.40061
Pennyroyal Cemetery	33.33433	-79.34116
Pine Bluff Cemetery	33.75627	-79.31644
Prince George Winyah Cemetery	33.36905	-79.2806
Union Cemetery	33.63822	-79.42394
Wallace Cemetery	33.51655	-79.49561
Wilson Cemetery	33.55155	-79.40228
Yauhannah Cemetery	33.65155	-79.18754

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
San Miguel De Gualdape	33.32794	-79.26088

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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