Letterbook No. 6: a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents from the record of Connelly Burgin Berry... compiled March 6, 2005.

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Letterbook No. 6: a collection of miscellaneous letters and documents from the record of Connelly Burgin Berry... compiled March 6, 2005.

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Topics discussed Chesterfield County, S.C.; Berry's colleagues in the Cheraw High School class of 1937; Little River (Horry County, S.C.); Lowcountry information, including the origin of the name "Grand Strand"; determination of the boundary line between North Carolina and the Palmetto State. Includes essay re business at the Sunset Lodge, a famous brothel near Georgetown, S.C., which operated 1936-1969; Tom Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red Sox who spent vacations at his hunting preserve in Georgetown County, S.C., reputedly recruited "Miss Hazel" Weiss, the madam of a bordello in Florence, S.C., and a former school teacher from Indiana, to relocate her operations to a site ca. three miles south of Georgetown where business flourished for decades. Persons represented include attorney Alva M. Lumpkin (b.1921) of Columbia, S.C., and genealogical information re the following families: Berry, Freeman, McNair, Prince, Thomas and others.

111 sheets : ill. ; 28 cm.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Berry family.

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Sunset Lodge (Georgetown, S.C.)

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Freeman family.

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Cheraw High School (S.C.)

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Lumpkin, Alva M., 1921-

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Yawkey, Thomas A., 1903-1976

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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 ...

Weiss, Hazel, d.1975.

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McNair family.

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Thomas family.

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Prince family.

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