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Cotton overwhelms the facilities of this wharf in Charleston in this 1909 photograph. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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An industrial and commercial complex made up of lumber yards and shipping, operated by the Georgetown and Western Railroad and the Gardner and Lacey Lumber Company, characterized the Sampit River...
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A steel steamer named the "Georgetown" is docked at the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company loading area. One of two such vessels owned by the company, the "Georgetown" was 256 feet long, and could make the...
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Charleston has been reestablished as one of the major port cities on the East Coast since the Second World War by the advent of the phenomena of container cargo, and the farsightedness of the South...