Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half-hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to 5 children per session to help ensure social distancing. On September 12th we’ll discuss a few of the different types of snakes […]
The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Simeon Brooks Chapin: A Man of Action. A successful businessman, Chapin was involved in each of the communities in which he lived, including Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His philanthropy provided for schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, and YMCAs. He showed his care of […]
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half-hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to 5 children per session to help ensure social distancing. On September 19th we’ll talk about the differences between our local muscadine grapes […]
Experience life on the family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join museum staff Saturday, September 19th in the Farmhouse kitchen for a cooking demonstration all about cooking with grapes. From 9 AM until 12 PM, staff will prepare grape jam and grape hull pie […]
The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Hurricane Hugo: Storm of the Century. Hurricane Hugo made landfall north of Charleston sometime around midnight September 22, 1989. A category 4 storm, Hugo caused significant damage along the South Carolina coast. The Grand Strand saw 12 foot high walls of water […]
Join us on September 26th as Marian Calder shares some interesting moments in Horry County’s history including Confederate deserters raiding local farms, the largest wooden ship built in SC, an abandoned community on the Waccamaw River, and a suspected murderer calling down the wrath of God on his accusers. Marian Calder is […]
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half-hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to 5 children per session to help ensure social distancing. On September 26th we’ll talk about how measuring air pressure can help us […]
Experience life on the one horse family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm! It’s laundry time yet again at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm! Stop by on October 27th from 9 AM until 12 PM to see how clothes would have been cleaned before the use of modern washing machines.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM-4 PM and teaches the history of the Horry County farm family from 1900-1955. The farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.
