Events

The 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film is a historical visualization of the biography of Charles Pinckney, whose life serves as the basis for much of where and how we live today. Through the use of original digital artwork, period illustrations, historical documents, dramatic reenactments, and studio interviews, this program weaves a tapestry that tells the story of a true public servant whose contributions to the birth of our nation and state are matched by no other historical figure.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 22nd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

Join us on January 25th from 9 AM-Noon at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! The public is invited to experience how families would have prepared pork to be preserved on a typical Horry County Farm in the early 1900s. Winter was a season when the farm family was often dependent on home preserved foods, and the perfect time of year for curing pork. Once the meat was cured, families could not only eat the pork during the winter season, but also throughout the year. No part of the animal was wasted on the farm, from using the fat to render into lard, to creating dishes like chitterlings, hog head cheese, or even pickled pig’s feet! Demonstrations include the carving and preparation of pork, salting and curing meat in the smokehouse, rendering lard, cooking demos, and more!
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 Shortcut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, please contact the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email the Horry County Museum at hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.
For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the 30 minute film, 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 people by establishing programs and institutions to make their lives better. Even after his death in 1945, his philosophy lives on. Through his four foundations, he continues to build the communities he loved and inspire others.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 29th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

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. On February 1st we’ll discuss the importance of canning and pickling on family farms. Children will also make their own ‘refrigerator pickles’ to take home.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

The 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with A True Likeness. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film tells the story of Richard Samuel Roberts, a little-known African American photographer from South Carolina whose posthumous discovery transcended stereotypes and brought to light a significant legacy. Heralded as one of the south’s most accomplished photographers of the 1920's and 1930's, Roberts was a self-taught artist who was determined to become a master portrait maker, with every image a true likeness of the subject. But for more than 40 years after his death his work remained lost to all but his family and friends.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 5th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

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. On February 8th children will learn how to make homemade ink using berries, and have the chance to write or draw with a feather quill.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

The Horry County Museum presents a program by Professor John Navin and Coastal Carolina University students on Saturday, February 8th, at 1:00 PM. The students, part of the Prince Fellows program at CCU, will discuss key findings from their research involving nineteen issues of The Horry Dispatch –the only newspaper published in Horry County during the first year of the Civil War.
Taylor Pierce is a lifelong resident of the Myrtle Beach area. She is currently a senior at Coastal Carolina University, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in history with minors in war & society and social studies. She is deeply interested in civil liberties, societal expectations, and the various pressures and injustices faced by specific groups during the 18th century, particularly women and religious sects. Taylor aspires to further her education and develop a career in archival studies, helping to preserve and interpret historical narratives.
Jordan Blazer is a graduate student at Coastal Carolina University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in History in 2024 with minors in Political Science and Religious Studies. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she has called South Carolina home since 2007. Jordan belongs to the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society and as an undergraduate was a frequent President’s List awardee. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at CCU, building on her exploration of how historical events shape contemporary political and religious dynamics.
Kailani-Lee D’Antuono is originally from North Wildwood, New Jersey. She received her Associate's degree from Horry Georgetown Technical College and is now pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Women and Gender Studies and Social Studies. Kailani’s goal is to earn a Master’s degree and teach High School Social Studies. She is an entrepreneur, operating a design and jewelry business in Conway, and enjoys spending time with her friends, family, and pets.
Connor Mojo is in his Junior year at Coastal Carolina University where he majors in both political science and history; he is also pursuing a minor in Philosophy. Having been raised in Conway, Connor is especially interested in local history and in history of the colony of South Carolina. In 2023-2024 he received the Coley B. Prather Scholarship in Lowcountry History. Mojo plans to continue his studies in graduate school and eventually become a professor.
Prof. John Navin is advisor to the current Prince Fellows project. He joined CCU’s Department of History in 1999. Navin earned his Master’s Degree at Boston College and his Ph.D. at Brandeis University. He specializes in American History to 1865 and also teaches the history of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
The program is free to the public and will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. To view a full list of scheduled programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Steel Roads, Iron Men. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, takes viewers on a nostalgic journey through railroading in South Carolina. From the early days when the giant locomotives were steam driven, to the modern world of diesel powered trains, hear railroading stories from the men who drove the spikes, or manned the engines from the early 1940s to the present.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 12th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.