| Nothing could be finer...Just a few short miles south | | | | wealthy planters of the day, the Allstons lost much |
| of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, well known for it's | | | | of their fortune as a result of the economic turmoil |
| 100 plus golf courses, you'll find Georgetown County, | | | | of the Civil War. Philip Lachicotte bought Waverly |
| a monument to the fine tradition of the southern | | | | Plantation in 1871. Waverly Mills rice was famous and |
| way of life. Tradition reigns supreme even to this day | | | | in fact won a Gold Medal in the 1902 Charleston |
| as many families have been there for 175 years or | | | | Exposition, but by 1911 the rice culture was totally |
| more. You'll find the same names in the All Saints | | | | dead in South Carolina. True Blue Golf Club is also in |
| Cemetery on King's Highway that belong to the | | | | this section of Pawleys Island and a monument to |
| movers and shakers of today. The people behind | | | | the old plantations of yesterday. If you look closely, |
| those outstanding golf courses that are #1 on your | | | | when you play golf at these golf courses you may |
| "hit" parade.Believe me you'll find golf in this area...and | | | | spot Doc Lachicotte having lunch in the |
| perhaps the best golf to be found in the Myrtle | | | | clubhouse.Gracious southern plantations abound in this |
| Beach area. One of the oldest golf courses in the | | | | area, names like Brookgreen, Hobcaw Barony, (home |
| area is Litchfield Golf and Country club, now we | | | | to Bernard Baruch in the early 19th century), and |
| know that many of you have heard of or even | | | | Wachesaw date well back to antebellum times. |
| played golf at Litchfield, or perhaps played it's sister | | | | Brookgreen is now the site of Huntington National |
| course, River Club, but did you know that both of | | | | State Park and Brookgreen Gardens, floral and |
| these outstanding courses exist on what was once a | | | | sculpture garden without peer.Wachesaw Plantation, |
| rice plantation extending from the Waccamaw River | | | | backing up to Brookgreen Plantation has it's own |
| to the Atlantic Ocean. Litchfield Plantation came into | | | | abandoned rice fields, but today is an outstanding |
| being approximately 1794 and a plat from that time | | | | Tom Fazio private golf course and residential area. It |
| shows an Avenue of Oaks and a house with two | | | | is the most thoroughly researched plantation in the |
| chimneys at either end, today you can still see that | | | | area. Archeologists dug and sifted for 3 years |
| house, totally renovated and offered as a wonderful | | | | marking slave cemeteries and Indian burial grounds. |
| Bed and Breakfast Inn, with an adjacent restaurant | | | | The original plantation house setting on a bluff |
| aptly named The Carriage House Both are totally | | | | overlooking the Waccamaw river burned about 1890. |
| steeped in the charm of a another day, elegant and | | | | In the section known as Richmond Hill there are |
| authentic in detail, intimate and very special.In the | | | | remnants of a Revolutionary Fort with outline of old |
| same area of Litchfield Beach is a fine old plantation, | | | | trenches still visible. You can play this wonderful golf |
| Willbrook, that now boasts 3 beautiful golf courses | | | | course when you buy into some of our outstanding |
| that include Willbrook and The Tradtion,(part of the | | | | Myrtle Beach golf packages.We wanted to give you |
| Myrtle Beach National stable of courses) and The | | | | food for thought the next time you go to play golf in |
| Reserve, a relatively new private course.Play golf on | | | | Georgetown County just south of Myrtle Beach. It's |
| such outstanding courses as Caledonia (voted the | | | | an ideal place for a golf vacation, with your foursome |
| "Most Beautiful Golf Course"). We believe you'll agree | | | | or your family. You can absorb the histroy and |
| when you drive down that long avenue of old oaks | | | | ambiance of a long ago past, even as you play the |
| with Spanish Moss to the clubhouse and the now | | | | outstanding golf courses. For more information about |
| fallow rice fields, that it is indeed a baurtiful site. | | | | the area and the golf...visit - you will truly discover the |
| Caledonia is on the site of "Waverly Plantation" circa | | | | secret behind golf in the Myrtle Beach |
| 1750 and in continuous ownership by the Allston and | | | | area.copyright@ Ewart, an artist, a writer and world |
| Lachicotte families. Robert Allston was Governor of | | | | travler, devotes many hours to authoring and |
| South Carolina from 1857 to 1859 and his papers for | | | | maintaining major travel web sites. Publishes many |
| expenditures for his rice plantation from 1834 to 1857 | | | | articles on travel spots around the world. |
| survive to this day, but as was the case with many | | | | |