CONWAY, S.C. — Ben Burroughs remembers reading a headline in the mid-1980s that ruffled some feathers in the Conway area.
As downtown Conway was fighting to establish its identity, Burroughs — a Conway native and Director of the Horry County Archives Center — remembers well that newspaper article that still sticks out in his memory.
He recalls a jarring quote from Conway’s mayor at the time: “Downtown Conway is Dead”…