Visitors from around the world are discovering the new Horry County Museum at the renovated old Burroughs School on Main Street in Conway.
Horry County Museum director Walter Hill stands next the centerpiece of the new museum—a 2,500-gallon freshwater aquarium.
The Paul family in front of the family farmhouse, a replica of which may be found at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm.
Dioramas covering nearly 10,000 years of local history may be found on two floors in the school-turned-museum.
A unique helical staircase surrounds a large aquarium, built and installed by crews from the Tanked television show.
A working lumber mill, smokehouse, sugarcane mill, and the family homestead are just a few of the outbuildings that populate the L.W. Paul Living History Farm in Conway. Staff regularly conduct demonstrations of daily life as seen throughout Horry County in the first half of the 20th century.
Regional flora and fauna are on display throughout the museum, including the once important local crop, tobacco.
