6 June 2015 0 sm today
We started out the day with breakfast at Taylor's Cafe, a 50's style dinner. Next walked to the farmers market and bought a few things. We then took a walk along the riverwalk. At 1100 am we took the trolley tour and learned a great deal about the history of Georgetown and saw many of the old homes. Georgetown had 3 main industries during it's long history; rice, indigo and lumber. At one time South Carolina was the 2nd largest producer of rice, behind China, in the world. It also grew a plant that produced indigo which is the blue dye that English navy uniforms were dyed. Because of these things the King of England declared Georgetown an official British port of entry. That continued until the war of 1812 after which we discontinued shipping to England. We had lunch and then took a tour of the Rice Museum and the Maritime Museum. We had dinner out and watched the Belmont Stakes.
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| Sunset last night. |
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| Riverwalk. |
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| The harbor. |
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| Some of the old houses. |
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| Ledgors from the 1800's. |
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| The old hardware store which now houses the Rice Museum. |
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