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district has rows of beautiful homes and Today the community has more than
other structures, some dating back to the 1,200 home sites and the average home
late 1700s. Plantation owners would bring value is about $908,000.
their families to Pawleys Island during the
summer to escape from the humidity and MAINLAND
insects on the mainland. Perhaps some of GEORGETOWN COUNTY
these families saw Pawleys’ famous Mainland Georgetown County has
helping spirit, the Gray Man, who two incorporated cities, Georgetown and SCREVEN’S HOPE
sometimes appears to people to warn Andrews. Plans for the City of Georgetown
of impending storms. were established by Elisha Screven in 1729,
A beach home in Pawleys Island is making Georgetown the third-oldest city
likely to cost $1 million or more. Not in in South Carolina, with the legends and
your budget? No worries – single-family landmarks to prove it.
homes and condo units can be bought in Georgetown has seen times of
the $200,000-$350,000 range. growth and times of quiet, war and peace,
At the southern tip of the Waccamaw and has even hosted such notable figures
Neck, DeBordieu Beach or DeBordieu as Thomas Lynch, Jr. (a signer of the Communities
Colony is an unincorporated oceanfront Declaration of Independence), the Marquis
gated community. This community includes de Lafayette, and the father of our nation,
a private golf and country club, as well as George Washington.
800 acres of wildlife preserve accessible Georgetown honors its past in the
only to residents and guests at DeBordieu. preservation of the city’s historic district
Like Pawleys Island, DeBordieu was once along with revitalized historical homes,
a favorite summer destination for the some of which are now bed and breakfasts
Waccamaw Neck rice planters. Legend has and open to the public. The original street
it that the Marquis de Lafayette proclaimed names still mark the town streets and
it the “borderland of God” in 1777. The remind locals of the city’s rich past that
French translation “D’aborde Dieu” became influences the present.
“DeBordieu” or “Debidue” in the local Georgetown’s population is relatively
Gullah dialect. young. While the average age of residents
of the Waccamaw Neck communities is in
the 50s, Georgetown is comprised primarily
of young, diverse families; the median age
is 38.5.
Georgetown residential properties
range from $100,000 to $10 million
and include condos, single-family homes,
Georgetown waterfront properties, even historic
Southern plantations.

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