The Revolutionary War started in Massachusetts at Concord and Lexington, and as fighting continued, many critical battles were fought in South Carolina — some battles even took place in Horry County.
An outstanding new exhibit at the Horry County Museum in Conway highlights several skirmishes in Horry County — then, in the late 1700s, the upper part of Georgetown District. The 250thExhibit officially opens Saturday April 11 at the museum on Main Street.
The Battle of Socastee Swamp, in January of 1781, “occurred near the border of modern day Horry and Georgetown Counties, on the old road to Murrells Inlet from Socastee,” according to a panel in “Here in Horry.” General Francis Marion, in a letter to the commander of the Southern Theater, notes “a skirmish on Waccamaw Neck between a detachment of forty men under Col. Peter Horry and a sixty man enemy force commanded by Lt. Col. Campbell after Marion had sent Horry” to the area…