Shown above is Georgetown citizen Edward Herriot, who was a freed slave. He is shown here in 1919. Below is a post card of Front Street circa 1930, and an actual view taken in 1900. These photos and many other treasures are part of the Georgetown County Digital Collection.
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Most of these books about Georgetown are available for sale or can be procured through local shops and bookstores, particularly Waterfront Books in Georgetown. They can also be found through the outstanding Georgetown County Library system. Check out even more books about Georgetown at the South Carolina State Library.
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The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina
By George C. Rogers, Jr. – 1970
Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County
and the Santee River
By Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker – 2001
Georgetown Rice Plantations
By Alberta Morel Lachicotte – 1989
Sunset Lodge in Georgetown: The Story of a Madam
By David Gregg Hodges – 2019
A View of our Past: The Morgan Photographic Collection depicting Georgetown South Carolina C. 1890-1915
By The Georgetown County Library System, Georgetown, S.C. – 2002
A Guide to the City of Georgetown Historic District
By Georgetown County Historical Society – 1995
Georgetown Houselore
ByJulian Stevenson Bolick – 1944
Collected Works of Bill Doar, A Lowcountry Son
By Bill Doar – 2024
Trial and Error: The Case of John Brownfield
And Race Relations in Georgetown, S.C.
By Tom Rubillo – 2005
Ebony Effects: 150 Unknown Facts about Blacks in Georgetown, S.C.
By Steve Williams
By Steve Williams – 2025
24 Extraordinary People Who Made a Difference
By Steve Williams
Wooden Ships on Winyah Bay
By Robert McAlister – 2021
For Love of A Rebel
By the Arthur Manigault Chapter
of The United Daughters of The Confederacy – 1964
Green Book of South Carolina
By Assorted Authors
Mr. Baruch
By Margaret Coit – 1957
A Guide to City of Georgetown Historic District
A guide for touring, with in-depth write-ups based on professional research, of 63 historic homes, buildings and sites in the downtown area.
Published by the Georgetown County Historical Society
Glories of the Carolina Coast
By James Henry Rice Jr. – 1925
The Last Foray: The South Carolina Planters of 1860: A Sociological Study
By Chalmers Gaston Davidson – 1971
Georgetown County, South Carolina (Black America Series)
By Ramona La Roche
A Caines Family Tradition: A Native Son’s Story of Fishing, Hunting and Duck Decoys in the Lowcountry
By Jerry Wayne Caines – 2007
Hidden History of the Grand Strand
By Rick Simmons – 2010
Defending South Carolina’s Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River
By Rick Simmons – 2009
Georgetown and Winyah Bay
By Mary Boyd and James H. Clark – 2010
Georgetown County, S.C. Tombstone Inscriptions
Published by the Georgetown County Historical Society in conjunction with the Georgetown Committee of the National Society of ColonialDames in the State of South Carolina.
Lists those buried at 77 cemeteries, both public and private, in Georgetown County. Includes an Index and maps for finding each burying ground.
That We Should Have a Port, Volume 1.
By Dr. Ronald C. Bridwell with additional material by Jimmy Elliott.
Published by the Georgetown County Historical Society. A history of the Port from 1732 to 2018.
The Gem of the Atlantic Seaboard, Vol. 2.
Dr. Ronald C. Bridwell.
Published by the Georgetown County Historical Society. Traces maritime activities of Georgetown from 1860 to the present.
Georgetown and The Waccamaw Neck
By Susan Hoffer McMillan – 2003
South Carolina – A History
By Walter Edgar – 1992
The South Carolina Encyclopedia
By Walter Edgar – 2006
Rum Gully Tales from Tuck’em Inn: Stories of Murrells Inlet and The Waccamaw Country
By Pratt Gasque – 1990
The Regions of the Rice Planters 1734-1875: Historic Journeys around Georgetown and the Waccamaw River Regions
By Jennie Holton Fant – 2022
Georgetown Mysteries and Legends
By Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf – 2007
Georgetown: The Original Plan and the Earliest Settlers.
By H. A. M. Smith.
Originally printed in South Carolina Historical Society Magazine April 1908. Earliest extant plan (1737)
included. A paperback souvenir pamphlet celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Municipal Government in Georgetown.
Beaver the Retriever; Stickboat Adventures; The Flounders Revenge
By M.P. “Pat” Ferris
South Carolina: A Synoptic History for Laymen
By Lewis P. Jones – 1971
South Carolina Ghost Tales
By Nell S. Graydon – 1969
Carolina Decameron: Tales of Hugo and Other Stories
By Dean Dubois & Kent Krell – 1993
Travels in the Confederate States: A Bibliography
By E Merton Coulter – 1948
A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North
By John Hope Franklin – 1976
George Washington’s Guide To The Waccamaw Neck and Georgetown (Rice Told Tales)
By Sharon Carlisle – 1991
A Devil and a Good Woman Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin
By Susan Millar Williams – 1997
South Carolina in the 1880s: A Gazetteer
By John Hammond Moore – 1989
South Carolina History Illustrated , Vol. 1 #2
By Robert Pearce Wilkins, Sandlapper Press – 1970
South Carolina: Westview Geographies of the United States
By Charles Kovacik & John J. Winberry – 1987
Plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry
By Samuel Gaillard Stoney – 1938
Pawleys Island: Historically Speaking
By Eugene B. Chase Jr. & Katherine Richardson
The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast
By Ambrose E. Gonzales – 1922
A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee, 1818-1881
By Louis P. Towles
No Heir to Take its Place: The Story of Rice in Georgetown County, South Carolina
By Dennis T. Lawson
Ghosts From the Coast: A Collection of Twelve Stories from Georgetown County, South Carolina
By Julian Stevenson Bolick
