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The Grand Strand is a stretch of beaches along the South Carolina coastline and Myrtle Beach is the most visited beach destination. Myrtle Beach was founded as a resort town early in the 20th century. Myrtle Beach is the hub of the Grand Strand visited by more than 10 million travelers each annual season. In addition to the coastline amusement parks, restaurants, festivals and tourist traps abound.

The general area along Long Bay was inhabited by the Wacqmaw Indians, prior to European arrivals. Burial and shell mounds are evidence of their civilization.

In the 17th century settlers came to the area but records from this period are sparse with most of the recorded history pieced together from old land grant records. Prior to the American Revolution the land was mostly uninhabited until several families received land grants along the coast. The coast’s soil is sandy and most crops yield of indigo and tobacco were of inferior quality.

The area remained largely unmarked and unsettled. The primary family, the Withers family left the area after the hurricane in 1822 swept over the family home and drowned 18 people in side. The area was left unattended and returned to forest.

Following the Civil War most of the abandoned land was purchased by the Conway Lumber Company and a railroad was built to serve the company. Employees of the lumber and railroad company would take train flatcars down to the beach on the weekends and became the first Grand Strand tourists. In 1900 a hotel, the Seaside Inn was built to handle visitors from the railroad.

Myrtle Beach was named in a contest to name the new area of town. It is derived from the name of the local abundant shrub. The town was developed as a resort form company employees and it continued to grown over the next 20 years. In 1938 it was incorporated and two years later the Myrtle Beach Municipal Airport was built.

The economy of Myrtle Beach is generally fueled by tourism. Restaurants and golf courses are found across the Grand Strand with a large number concentrating in the downtown are of the city.

U.S. Highway 17 was the first major route into the Myrtle Beach area. The current route of U.S. 501 was created in a more direct path and the new 4 land highway was built in the 1960’s to accommodate increasing traffic into the city. A bypass for US 17 was constructed in and opened in 1975 allowing traffic to bypass the heavily congested areas. New roads have been created in the last 10 years to relieve this congestion as well. The third phase of the Carolina Bays Parkway which will be a graded separation of Farrow Parkway at the back gate of a former Air Force Base.

Myrtle Beach is also served by the Myrtle Beach International Airport which is located on the vacated Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. Hooters Air began operating out of Myrtle Beach in early 2003. It closed early in 2006 as rising airline prices created financial stresses.

The Carolina Southern Railroad (CSSR) operated as a shoreline rail operator running on less than 100 miles of rail at a maximum speed of 10 mph. It transports mostly freight transferred to it from the nation`s rail operators. CSSR makes just one scheduled delivery per month to the City of Myrtle Beach.

Myrtle Beach is home to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a Carolina League baseball team and the Atlanta Braves farm franchise. The annual Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon is a track and field event in February featuring a Friday night 5K and Saturday half-marathon and relay. Marathon day draws the limit of 6,000 runners and results usually in an unusual dawn as the race starts before dawn in order to finish by 2:30 PM. Stock car racing is held at Myrtle Beach Speedway and many golf courses dot the Grand Strand.

Myrtle Beach features prominently in the list of alluring golf vacation sites. The Pine Lakes Country Club has the oldest golf course in Myrtle Beach. In the 1920’s a group of businessmen desired to create an upscale beach area away from the amusements and arcade cultures. The course was completed in 1927 in an area knows as the Arcady which contained what is now knows as the Pine Lakes Country Club and the Ocean Forest Hotel. Sam Snead and Gene Sarazen were some of the old golfers who loved to play the course. Golfer mixed with the elite, the Vanderbilt’s and the Rockefellers. The cold continues today in the Scottish Traditi9on in which it was founded. The starter who is usually dressed in a kilt gives the history and tells you about the features before you tee off. Every golfer should have this experience at least one time!

The Ocean Forest Hotel was a very grand 300 room hotel with crystal chandeliers, ballroom, indoor and outdoor pools, stables and shops. Next to this was an open to the stars ballroom with big bands to entertain. This was called the Patio and sold no liquor. It was BYOB (bring your own bottle) and you had to pay for “set-ups”, a bucket of ice ($1.00) and ginger ale or cola (also $1.00) Everyone in Myrtle Beach gathered at the Ocean Forest until it was demolished in 1974.

The Patricia Hotel just to the south was listed as a “family resort”. Motels were just being built along the highways when the first “nice” big motel, the El Rancho was built in 1948. The city became concerned as big motels were springing up how the city could support them all.

The dunes Club was built in 1948 during a very busy time in Myrtle Beach. It is still beautiful and still going strong as a private club.

The most famous event in town is the Sun Fun Festival. Life Magazine covered the first annual event and everyone was required to wear shorts on that day. This was in a time when Myrtle Beach was a nice small town and no one wore shorts on the streets. The populace and visitors had great fun seeing older prominent residents either wearing shorts or hauled off the kangaroo court to jail and to be fined to benefit the building fund for Ocean View Memorial Hospital. In 1952 the first Miss SC contest was held at the Pavilions.

In those days past there was a local operator “central” who handled all of the telephone connections and kept everybody up to date on happenings and local gossip.

Country music fans will find delight in the Carolina Opry. This is one of the two things that are “must see” when you visit the Grand Strand. #1 is the Ocean, #2 is the Opry. This is the first variety show built in Myrtle Beach and for 21 years has been a “Hot Ticket” for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who pass through its doors each year.

The performance is a two hour blend of country music and Broadway. There is classic pop and rock ‘n roll and gospel to bluegrass. The Carolina Opry has received every top tourism award and has been voted #1 show every year. As you enter the two-story marble lobby you know that you are in for an extraordinary experience that your family will long remember.

The Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament is a return to the Middle Ages featuring a whole chicken dinner served on a plate without knives or forks. It features outstanding costumes, knights, ladies-in-waiting, and jousting.

Do not miss the Palace Theatre and the Hard Rock Café.

Garden City Pier offers live entertainment. People fish all along the pier it is a lot of fun for a little bit of money.

A must see for your visit in Brookgreen Gardens. There are 750 sculptures the park. From small flora and animals to heroic size animal and human figures the park is more than a tour it is an experience. In the spring the Dogwoods and Azaleas bloom. The Magnolias come out in June but the park is a joy nearly any season of the year. Beautiful!

There so many attractions in this small coastal area that makes a truly memorable vacation for all.

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