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Georgetown County, South Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | By the middle of the eighteenth century, Georgetown County was a dominant indigo and rice planting region, with a well-developed class of prominent and influential planter families. |
 | | Georgetown District was first named in 1768, encompassing the parishes of Prince George, All Saints, and Prince Frederick. |
 | | Georgetown County, fronting approximately fifty miles on the Atlantic ocean, with a slightly incurved beach line unbroken except by the mouth of the Santee River, Winyah Bay, and a few tidal inlets further north, contains 828 square miles, was organized in 1768, and has a population of 21,716. |
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