Connelly Burgin Berry papers, 1970-1995.

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Connelly Burgin Berry papers, 1970-1995.

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Chiefly newspaper columns, 1992-1995, re local history of Horry and Georgetown Counties and Pee Dee River region of South Carolina, published in the Sun-News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), by Berry and others; also including personal correspondence of Berry, ca. 1970-1995. Arrangement: "Volume II," history articles, ca. 1992-1993; "Volume III, " history articles, ca. 1994-1995; and "Letter book no. 3: letters and papers from the records of C.B. Berry, " including correspondence ca. 1970s-1990s; other columnists include Catherine H. Lewis, Blanche W. Floyd, Kelly Paul Joyner, J. Marcus Smith, and Wynness Thomas. Topics addressed in "Volume II," 1992-1993, include Indian place names; a Civil War sites; impact of World War II; development of Myrtle Beach; drug stores, diners, and other businesses; pirate legends and other folklore; Pawleys Island; timber industry; settlement of Brunswick, N.C.; and founding of library in Conway and discovery of letter from Charlotte Bronte. Topics addressed in "Volume III," 1994-1995, include timber industry in Pine Island area; early schools; funerals in Conway, S.C., ca. 1900; first fishing pier in the area; post offices; hurricanes and ship wrecks; steamboats, railroads, and early transportation; Civilian Conservation Corps, Depression, and World War II era. Volume, "Letter Book No. 3," ca. 1970-1995, including correspondence with former classmates from Cheraw High School, class of 1937, and letters, 1970-1972, with Dr. Thomas S. Buie of Chesterfield County; historical topics re Horry and Georgetown Counties, including Lynch Bellinger (1896-1962) an early aviator; and timber industry in Horry County, S.C. Letter book also includes interview, 13 Jan. 1991, (p. 85-87) with Walter Eric Luff, native of Germany, who was held in S.C. as a prisoner of war during World War II, and who returned to work in the timber industry in Horry County, S.C.; and genealogical information of the Berry, Bessent, Green, Hemingway, Johnson, Moore, Smith, Todd, Vaught and other families.

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Vaught family.

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Moore family.

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Berry family.

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Todd family.

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Floyd, Blanche W.

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Luff, Walter Eric.

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Johnson family.

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Bellinger, Lynch, 1896-1962.

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Smith, Jerrie Marcus

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Hemingway family.

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Green family.

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Smith family.

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Berry, Connelly Burgin. 1994.

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Berry, Connelly Burgin.

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Author of local history column appearing in Sun-News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.); surveyor and former mayor of Crescent Beach, S.C.; a founder of Horry County History Museum, born 1919; native of Chesterfield County, S.C. From the description of Letterbook No. 6: a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents from the record of Connelly Burgin Berry... compiled March 6, 2005. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 70555750 Author of local history column appearing ...

Joyner, Kelly Paul.

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Lewis, Catherine Heniford

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Thomas, Wynness.

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Berry, Connelly Burgin. 1996.

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Bessent family.

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Cheraw High School (Cheraw, S.C.)

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Buie, T. S. (Thomas Stephen), 1896-1973

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