Steamboats! A new exhibit
NEW EXHIBIT AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM A new exhibit about steamboats on the rivers leading into Georgetown opened at the South Carolina Maritime Museum on March 21, 2015. The exhibit…
2014 Wooden Boat Show Intercept Survey
Here are the results of the 2014 Wooden Boat Show Intercept Survey conducted by the Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with Lauren Joseph, Tourism Marketing Director for Georgetown…
Museum guests honor Harvest Moon sinking, maritime tradition
by Taylor Griffith South Strand News One hundred fifty years ago last Sunday, March 1, 1865, there was an explosion out on Winyah Bay. The USS Harvest Moon, a sidewheel steamer gunboat, hit a mine…
History: Sunken Union flagship marks 150 years
By Charles Swenson, Coastal Observer There was fog on Winyah Bay. Fog among the live oaks and silent guns of Battery White. Fog in Georgetown. At 7:15 a.m., the USS Harvest Moon weighed anchor from…