Events

Fecal Matters: The Ins and Outs of Poop in Our Watershed All are welcome to attend this family-friendly community event highlighting the sources and impacts of poop in the Winyah Bay watershed and what you can do to help. Explore the museum while visiting the numerous exhibitor booths, student poster session, and […]

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with When Rice Was King. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film tells the story of how rice became a major cash crop in South Carolina. The cultivation of rice in South Carolina began in the late 1600s. By the […]

The Horry County Museum presents a lecture and book signing by local publisher, Steve Robertson on Thursday, February 6th, on his new novel about Civil War hero Robert Smalls.
In the early morning hours of May 12, 1862, a young enslaved man astonished a nation, torn by Civil War, when he commandeered Charleston’s most powerful warship and sailed it past a formidable gauntlet of Rebel forts to freedom.

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Rodger Stroup on February 8th, on his book Meet Me at the Rocket: A History of the South Carolina State Fair.

In the early 1700s South Carolinians were gathering to exchange information about crops and livestock, and small rural fairs were held, enhanced by horse racing, raffles, and other diversions to draw in the populace. The State Agricultural Society of South Carolina was founded in 1839 and held its first annual fair and stock show in November of the following year. In 1869 the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina was founded to revive the fair and has presented a fair in every year except 1918. The South Carolina State Fair has a long and storied history from those early days to its current "meet me at the rocket" days. Those initial fair goers would have been astonished to see the rocket, a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, greeting them as they arrived on the grounds. Join us as we explore South Carolina's agriculture and industry, its science and art and history through the State Fair.