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A Day in the Life of Georgetown, SC, December 1999
Georgetown, South Carolina, is the third oldest city in the state. Before European settlement, about twenty tribes of Sioux populated the region. In the first permanent European settlement, English settlers from Charleston made their way northward into the region, establishing trading posts with the Indians. As early as 1690 rice was grown in South Carolina, mostly by French Huguenot settlers who used the European methods of rice growing employing impoundments along swamps and streams. When it was discovered that African slaves from the Senegal-Gambia region of West Africa possessed an in-depth knowledge of rice agriculture, it was their technology in the tidal-flow technique, along with the five rivers in the Georgetown region, that made rice-growing an economic success in South Carolina. In the early 1700s, indigo was introduced in the region. The varied economy of indigo and rice, as well as naval stores and lumber, turned Georgetown into a major trade center. By 1840, Georgetown pr ... [Read More]
Georgetown County
Project Overview | Data Description | GIS Tutorials | Applications | Coastal County Maps | Data Tools | Data Sets & Metadata | Other Links | About this CD-ROM | Partners ... There are a number of different data sets available on this CD-ROM for Georgetown County. These data sets include land cover data, change analysis data, and LIDAR beach mapping data. This section provides maps for viewing and printing the data. Choose a data type from the table below to get more detailed information. There is also an option for you to view the data as Portable Document Format (PDF) maps. These maps will allow you to zoom in and print the maps at better resolution. ... [Read More]
Georgetown County Library
Extensive project documentation includes a 16-page narrative on the history of the Library; a two-page report on the role, mission, and accomplishments of the Library; and a CD-ROM disk containing annotated historic photos from the Morgan and Trenholm collections of the Library. Also included are a Library bicentennial poster print of Front Street, Georgetown, South Carolina, entitled "The Great White Way"; three reels of microfilm of primary historical documents from the Library's Rare Book Collection; and a master's thesis by Dwight McInvaill, currently Director of the Georgetown County Library System, entitled The Georgetown Library Society of South Carolina and the Book-Borrowing Habits of Ten of Its Antebellum Members . Additionally there are three videos: a Philip Vanderbilt Brady Lecture on the southern branch of the Vanderbilts given at Georgetown County Library, 11/21/99; "Southern History Series, Part I: Antebellum Culture," Georgetown County Library, 3/2 ... [Read More]
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