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All of the branchs of the Horry County Memorial Library have an extensive collection of books on County history and genealogy. Check both the normal and reference sections for the 975 sequence of call numbers, specifically SC 975.787. A few highlights are:

Blanche W. Floyd - Tales along the Grand Strand of South Carolina Rod Gragg - The Illustrated History of Horry County & Pirates, Planters, and Patriots Catherine Lewis - Horry County, South Carolina: 1730-1993 Susan Hoffer McMillan - Myrtle Beach and Conway in Vintage Postcards Thomas Pyatt - A Riverfront Town by the Waccamaw River Jack Thompson - Memories of Myrtle Beach: a pictorial history of the Grand Strand... Randall A. Wells - Along the Waccamaw: a yankee discovers a home by the river J. Motte Alston - Rice Planter and Sportsman One of the major finds, located exclusively at the Conway branch, is the hardbound collection of the Horry County Historical Society's publication the Independent Republic Quarterly.

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Chapin Library's reference department would be another good contact. After Catherine Lewis retired from the Horry County library she devoted a lot of time helping augment Chapin's geneological & historical sources.