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Hello and happy Thursday. Okay, so I took a picture of a picture (actually a mural) to show you today. This is in downtown Conway, South Carolina. The steamboat belonged to F.G. Burroughs. Born in 1834, F.G. Burroughs grew up farming, but decided he didn't want to be a farmer and so he went to Conway (it was Conwayborough then) and opened a mercantile and manufactured turpentine. Many years later, a war, a marriage, some business partnerships and new ventures and he was setting his sights on Myrtle Beach. There was already steamboat trade like the boat in the mural from the Waccamaw River to there and he wanted to connect the beach with the railroad. He died in 1897, but his heirs continued his vision for Myrtle Beach. F.G. Burroughs felt that Myrtle Beach's Grand Strand could rival notable northern beach communities such as Coney Island and Atlantic City. Thanks to his heirs, his vision didn't die with him. You can read more about him at: http://www.hchsonline.org/bio/fgburroughs.html
I hope you had a terrific Thursday. Thank you for looking. See you tomorrow.
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