South Carolina Maritime Museum

The South Carolina Maritime Museum has been a sixteen year-old vision of the Harbor Historical Association (HHA), the sponsoring organization of the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show. HHA is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) group which began in 1996 with a mission to preserve and promote the maritime history of Georgetown County and South Carolina. Through community support of the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show and related events, HHA has accumulated the initial funding for its waterfront museum home.

In 1996 the Harbor Historical Association launched a dream to create a museum that would celebrate the rich maritime history of South Carolina and the Port of Georgetown, the state's second largest seaport. Now, with the acquisition of our own facility, the South Carolina Maritime Museum has opened in its permanent home, appropriately on the waterfront at the corner of Front and Broad Streets in Georgetown. Watch us grow!

It is the mission of the South Carolina Maritime Museum to tell the stories that are unique to South Carolina's maritime history through photographs, documents, artifacts and interactive exhibits.

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