Place:Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States

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NameGeorgetown
Alt namesGeorges Townsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS45004976
TypeCity
Coordinates33.368°N 79.294°W
Located inGeorgetown, South Carolina, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Georgetown is the third oldest town in the U.S. state of South Carolina and the county seat of Georgetown County, in the Lowcountry. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 9,163. Located on Winyah Bay at the confluence of the Black, Great Pee Dee, Waccamaw, and Sampit rivers, Georgetown is the second largest seaport 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- and rice-producing area. Rice replaced indigo as the chief commodity crop in the antebellum area. Later the timber industry became important here.

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