Local History Room
The Patricia Doyle Local History room offers a wealth of print resources, including county, state, and federal censuses, South Carolina magazines and historical newsletters, cemetery and burial records, and obituaries. We also have a full collection of area high school yearbooks and city directories.
Microfilm machines let you access thousands of back issues of the Georgetown Times and a collection of enlarged photographs let you explore Georgetown County of yesteryear.
When you visit us, take a look at our changing display of local antiques and historic handmade crafts.
Newspapers on Microfilm
- Andrews Progress - Andrews SC
- Coastal Observer - Pawley's Island SC
- Daily American - Georgetown SC
- Georgetown Enquirer - Georgetown SC
- Georgetown Gazette - Georgetown SC
- Georgetown Times - Georgetown SC
- The Pee Dee - Georgetown SC
- The Progressive Democrat - Georgetown SC
- Sunday Day Observer - Georgetown SC
- Tri-County Tribune - Georgetown SC
- The Wildflower - Marion SC
- Winyah Observer - Georgetown SC
Obituary Collections
- Georgetown SC Area Obituaries 1937 to 1988
- Death and Obituary Notices in the Southern Christian Advocate, 1867 to 1878
- Local History Room Print Resources
Census Records
Our first census records date to 1790 and include:
- South Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Darlington County
- Edgefield County
- Florence County
- Georgetown County
- Greenville County
- Horry County
- Marion County
- Slave Records (1850 only)
- Sumter County
- The United States
- Veterans and Civil War Widows (1890)
- Williamsburg County
Please note: with the exception of Georgetown, not every county has a record for every census year.
Cemetery Records
Cemetery Records of Richland County SC
- Cemeteries: A Military Supplement: Georgetown SC: A Gravesite Locator Prepared for Memorial Day 1995
- Florence National Cemetery, Florence SC
- Georgetown County SC Tombstone Inscriptions
- Interment Records of Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia SC
- Newberry County SC Cemeteries
- Spartanburg County SC Cemeteries
- Survey of Cemeteries Between the Black and Santee Rivers
- Survey of Cemeteries in Lower Florence County SC
- Survey of Twenty-two Cemeteries in Johnsonville, Hemingway Area of Old Williamsburg District SC
- Survey of Cemeteries: Upper Georgetown County SC
- Survey of Williamsburg Presbyterian Cemetery