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Presenter traces colonial parish boundaries that shaped Georgetown County
Summary
A presenter outlined how 18th-century Anglican parishes — established beginning in 1706 and reorganized in 1721 and 1734 — evolved from civil-administrative units into church-only parishes as Georgetown County assumed judicial and administrative roles.
A presenter traced the colonial origins of what is today Georgetown County, saying early parish boundaries and county divisions set patterns that persist in local place names and jurisdictional lines.
"When the colony was first created, it was laid out in large acreages," the presenter said, describing how early divisions later became Berkeley County, Colleton County (with county seat Walterboro) and what the presenter identified as the area corresponding to modern Georgetown County. The presenter said few…
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