Conway
is the home CENTURY 21 Bratcher Realty Inc., your home
town real estate company. Larry and his staff
share a long history of being a part of Horry county
civic duties. They have a knowledge and understand of
their clients desire to step back into the peace and
tranquility of days gone by, while still being close
to those things which modern living has made us accustomed.
At Bratcher Realty each person you work with is a REALTOR®
who lives up to a code of ethics that separates them
from someone who just has a real estate license. You
can be assured that you will find the new home or land
you have been longing to have. If you desire a condo
or townhouse to settle into the staff will guide you
in making the correct choices.
Overlooking
the dark waters of the picturesque Waccamaw River, the
city of Conway offers an appealing mixture of small-town
friendliness, modern conveniences, and Old South charm.
It is one of the oldest towns in America, established
in 1733, in what was then South Carolina's colonial
frontier. A walk along the riverfront is a pleasant
reminder that Conway has experienced a great deal of
history.
American
Indians were here first: the Conway area was home to
South Carolina's Waccamaw Indians, whose name now graces
our river and our region.
Conway's
first European settlers were Irish immigrants who carved
out a new life for themselves amid the wilderness of
Colonial America. The town was named Kingston to honor
Great Britain's King George I. During the Revolutionary
War, Brigadier General Francis Marion -- "the Swamp
Fox of the Revolution" -- operated in our region,
waging a monumental campaign for American freedom.
Following
independence, the town was renamed Conway borough (later
shortened to Conway) in honor of Robert Conway, a veteran
of the Revolution and a prominent local legislator.
Led by hardworking townsmen and independent-minded farmers,
Conway eventually flourished as South Carolina's outpost
on the Waccamaw. During the War Between the States,
most of its young men went off to fight for Southern
independence.
In the
1870's, Conway boomed as an export center for timber
products, shipping tar, pitch, turpentine, and pine
limber around the world. The railroad came to Conway
in 1887, and a few years later a group of Conway businessmen
extended it to the coast, launching what is now Myrtle
Beach.
Conway
has flourished as the county seat of Horry County and
as the center of one of the largest tobacco-producing
regions in the nation.
Today,
Conway is a pleasant, riverside town of quiet neighborhoods,
historic structures, and moss-shrouded live oak trees.
The best of the Old South's charm lives today in picturesque
Conway, South Carolina's Historic Rivertown. |
