Grand Strand is a vast expanse of beaches on the East Coast of the United States that stretches from Little River to Georgetown in the US State of South Carolina. It consists of more than 60 miles along unbroken mainland land, starting around the Small River and ending at Winyah Bay. The population of the Grand Strand is 329,449 at the 2010 US Census.
The term Grand Strand dates back to 19 November 1949 The Myrtle Beach Sun column titled "From Grandstand" and another titled "From the Grand Strand" on December 3, 1949 at The Myrtle News Beach . "Strand" itself comes from the German Strand , which means "beach".
This area has become a major tourist attraction along the Southeast coast, with its main city, Myrtle Beach, attracting over ten million visitors each season. It is home to many hotels, golf resorts and leisure centers, making it popular with families and college students during summer and winter.
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According to the KÃÆ'¶ppen climate classification, the Myrtle Beach area has a humid subtropical climate that is heavily influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, giving the region more oceanic nuances. The city has a mild winter and a hot and humid summer.
Rainfall is abundant throughout the year, but most concentrated during the summer, where it is not uncommon almost daily to have at least 30% chance of rain. This area is prone to powerful thunderstorms, especially in summer. It usually has a very short duration, although some may have intense hail with rare tornadoes.
Snowfall is very rare in this part of the state, but occasionally, as when Myrtle Beach received 5 inches of snow in January 2000. Another great ice and snow storm struck on January 28, 2014.
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History
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Long Bay area was populated by the original Waccamaw Tribe. The Waccamaw uses the river for trips and fishing along the coast around Little River. Waties Island, the main barrier island along Long Bay, has evidence of cemetery and shells, remnants of visiting Waccamaws.
The first European settlers along Long Bay arrived at the end of the 18th century, trying to expand the plantation system toward the sea. Records are rare from this period, with most historical records united from old grant documents. The settlers met with mixed results, generating tremendous amounts of indigo and tobacco because of sandy beach soils and most of the crops were of lower quality.
Before the American Revolution, the area along the future of the Grand Strand was basically uninhabited. Some families receive land grants along the coast, including Withers: John, Richard, William, and Mary. This family receives an area around Swash Wither's today, also known as Myrtle Swash or 8-Mile Swash. A separate grant was given to James Minor, including a barrier island named Minor Island, now Waties Island, off the coast near the Little River.
Mary Wither's tomb in Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church speaks of the remoteness of the former Strand: "He relinquished the pleasures of the Society and retired to Long Bay, where he lived most of his life devoted to the welfare of his children."
When the American colonies gained independence, the region remained essentially unchanged, and the coast remained barren. George Washington searched the Southern states during his tenure, traveling to King's Road. He stayed one night at Windy Hill (part of North Myrtle Beach now) and was brought across Swash toman to Georgetown by Jeremiah Vereen.
The Withers family remained one of the few settlers around Myrtle Beach for the next half century. In 1822, a powerful storm swept the house of R. F. Withers into the ocean, drowning 18 people in it. The tragedy made the Withers family decide to abandon their plot along the coast. Left unattended, the area began to return to the forest.
On February 28, 1899, Burroughs and Collins, the predecessors of modern Burroughs and Chapin, received their charter to build Conway & amp; Seashore Railroad to transport wood from shore to inland customers. The train started its operations every day on May 1, 1900 with two wood-burning locomotives. One of the machines was nicknamed the The Black Mary and came second-hand from the North Carolina logging operation. A community named post office "Withers" was established at the site of the old Swash.
After the train tracks are completed, the timber company employees and trains will take the train to the beach area on their free weekend, becoming the first Grand Strand tourist. The train terminus is nicknamed "New Town", in contrast to "Old Town", or Conway.
At the turn of the 20th century, Franklin Burroughs envisioned transforming New Town into a tourist destination that rivaled Florida and the northeast coast. Burroughs died in 1897, but his sons completed the train expansion to the beach and opened Seaside Inn in 1901.
After its founding, New Town continued to expand until 1957, when it was founded. A contest was held to name the city and Burroughs wife suggested respecting the abundant local shrub, Southern Wax Myrtle ( Myrica cerifera ). So the city was named Myrtle Beach.
In 1937, the Myrtle Beach Municipal Airport was built, but was soon taken over by the United States Army Corps Air Force in 1940 and converted into a military base. Commercial flights started in 1976 and shared runways for more than 15 years until the airbase closed in 1993. Since then the airport has been named the Myrtle Beach International Airport. In 2010 the plan to build a new terminal has been approved. In 1940, Kings Highway paved, giving Myrtle Beach its first major highway.
Economy
Grand Strand's economy is dominated by the tourism industry, with tourism generating millions of dollars every year. Hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, sights, and retail developments come in large numbers to serve visitors.
There are over 100 golf courses in and around Myrtle Beach since the golf industry represents a significant presence in the area.
The manufacturing base produces plastic, rubber, cardboard, foam, and ceramic products typically on a small scale.
Tourism
Hosting more than 14.6 million visitors annually, The Grand Strand is home to a variety of tourist attractions, and this area receives many visitors during spring and summer.
The Grand Strand hosts special conventions, events and music concerts. The attractions of this region include beaches and many golf courses, as well as numerous amusement parks, aquariums, IMAX theaters, retail developments and over 1,900 restaurants including seafood restaurants, and a number of shopping complexes. The area also has a dinner theater, nightclub, and many tourist shops. Myrtle Beach has about 460 hotels, with many on the beach, and about 89,000 units of accommodation in total. Also in town is Myrtle Waves, one of the largest water parks on the east coast.
The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk opened in 2010 and has been recognized as the # 3 nation's sidewalk by National Geographic and one of the best US sidewalks by Leisure Leisure magazine. Opened in May 2011, The Myrtle Beach Skywheel features a glass gondola overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Myrtle Beach State Park, founded in 1935, just under a mile from the Grand Strand beach and is a prime location for swimming, hiking, cycling and fishing.
The Myrtle Beach Convention Center is a great facility that hosts different meetings, conferences, exhibitions and special events each year. The center, which opened in 2003, is also equipped with Sheraton hotels and resorts.
Myrtle Beach welcomed Hard Rock Park in 2008, which is themed after the popular Hard Rock Cafe network. After financial problems, the park became Freestyle Music Park for the 2009 season. The park has themed attractions after different musical genres, such as the British Invasion. The park was not open for the 2010 season, and is bound in legal matters.
Every March since 1951 during the spring break of Ontario, Myrtle Beach has hosted Canadian-American Days, also known as Can-Am Days. Tens of thousands of tourists came to the area for a week-long special event. Myrtle Beach is also home to Coastal Uncorked, a food and wine festival held in late spring each year. In June, high school graduates just came to Myrtle Beach for Senior Week.
With many professional fireworks displays along the oceanfront, Myrtle Beach is known amongst the main destinations for the trip to the Fourth of July. Priceline.com ranks Myrtle Beach among the top 20 destinations for the Fourth of July in 2010.
Unauthorized gambling in South Carolina. However, Myrtle Beach residents and visitors have easy access to gambling by boat, which transports passengers to international waters beyond the reach of federal and state gambling laws.
Motorcycle Rally
Myrtle Beach Bike Week, also called "Harley Bike Week" is a week-long motor rally starting in 1940 and attracting 200,000 visitors to the city every May. Black Bike Week, founded in 1980, takes place over Memorial Day Weekend weekend and is the largest African American motorcycle rally in the US and attracts 400,000 visitors. The event was made in response to the history of discrimination against African-American visitors and riders to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand Area.
The Myrtle Beach government created 15 new laws aimed at preventing all motorcycle events approved within the city in response to controversies including racism allegations by African-American riders during their events and complaints of lawlessness and bad behavior during all the highly attended events. Some lawsuits by the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against the Myrtle Beach business were settled with an agreement that discrimination ceased, compensation was granted to several plaintiffs, and employees were given diversity training. NAACP's outfit against Myrtle Beach City was completed in 2006 without paying for city damage, but by agreement the police will use the same traffic control rules during both black and white motorcycles meetings.
The South Carolina Supreme Court in June 2010 unanimously annulled one of 15 regulations, requiring all motorcyclists to wear helmets, arguing that state legislation, which requires helmets only for motorists under the age of 21, can not preceded by city regulations. In addition, the Court ruled, the regulation created undue confusion, and that the city itself had annulled their own helmet laws and several other procedures in subsequent amendments. The law was challenged by a group of bikers and a group of Myrtle Beach businesses called BOOST, Organized Business Owners to Support Tourism, which opposes the city's anti-motorcycle tourism policy.
Shopping
The Grand Strand area has many different shops and malls, is one of the largest shopping areas in the Southeastern United States, and is South Carolina's largest shopping destination.
- Barefoot Landing opened in 1988 and currently includes 100 shops, restaurants and tourist attractions. The center also has the Alabama Theater, which has concerts by traditional country music singers. The center includes a golf resort.
- The Coastal Grand Mall opened in 2004 and is the largest indoor mall in the state. The mall, which has an indoor and outdoor shopping area, has a gross area of ​​1,047,732 square feet (97,337,5 m 2 ). The one-story facility has five anchor stores (including Belk, JCPenney and Dillard's), a 14-screen cinema, food court, and about 170 stores.
- Myrtle Beach Mall is 525,385 square feet (48,809.9 m 2 ), and has three anchor stores: Bass Pro Store, Belk and JCPenney. The single-story mall also has 12-screen movie theaters, a food court, and various other specialty shops. It used to be known as the Colonial Mall, and opened as Briarcliffe Mall.
- Tanger Outlets in Myrtle Beach has over 100 brand name outlets like Nautica and Sony. It is located on Route 501 US entering the city.
- Broadway at the Beach is a 350 acre (1.4 km 2 ) shopping complex along Highway 17 Bypass, with three theaters, 17 restaurants, over 100 specialty shops, attractions, clubs night, and three hotels, encircling 23 acres of Acra Lake (93,000m 2 ). This is the largest entertainment complex of festivals in South Carolina. It has IMAX theaters, Ripley Aquarium, Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett, and The Pavilion Nostalgia Park.
- The Common Market is a lifestyle center with several upscale shops, and a cinema. It is located on the site of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
Education
Public schools
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College/post-secondary
The Grand Strand provides the following colleges and post-secondary:
Private school
Below is a list of private schools along the Grand Strand.
- St. Andrew Catholic School
- The Christian Academy in Myrtle Beach
- Carolina Bays Academy
- Chabad Academy
- Calvary Christian School
- Bridgewater Academy
- Cathedral Hall High School
- Christian Academy
- The Christian Life Academy & amp; Child
Communities along the Grand Strand
Order registered by location (north to south)
Horry County, South Carolina
- Little River - pop. 8,960 (2010, not related to Horry County)
- North Myrtle Beach - pop. 13,752 (2010, city)
- Cherry Grove Beach (neighborhood, North Myrtle Beach)
- Ocean Drive Beach, (neighborhood, North Myrtle Beach)
- Crescent Beach, South Carolina (neighborhood, North Myrtle Beach)
- Windy Hill Beach, (neighborhood, North Myrtle Beach)
- Atlantic Beach - pop. 334 (2010, city)
- Briarcliffe Acres - pop. 470 (2010, city)
- Myrtle Beach - pop. 27109 (2010, city)
- Springmaid Beach (neighborhood, Myrtle Beach)
- Surfside Beach - pop. 3.837 (2010, city)
- Garden City - pop. 11,014 (2010, not related to Horry County)
Georgetown Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Murrells Inlet - pop. 8,547 (2010, unrelated Georgetown County)
- Litchfield Beach - (unlisted Georgetown County)
- Pawleys Island - pop. 103 (2010, city)
- DeBordieu - (unrelated Georgetown County)
- Georgetown - pop. 9163 (2010, city)
Infrastructure
Air
- Myrtle Beach International Airport opened in 1976 and is located on the south side of the city.
- Grand Strand Airport, located in North Myrtle Beach area, is a one-terminal airport (CRE), serving mainly banners and small planes.
- A private helicopter facility operated by Omniflight service at Grand Strand.
Rel
The Grand Strand is served by Railline Wisleamaw Coastline line that runs mostly parallel to U.S. Route 501 between Conway and downtown Myrtle Beach. The line is owned by Horry County, but leased in 2000 to Carolina Southern Railroad.
Carolina Southern Railroad is a short rail line operator that operates on rails less than 100 miles (160 km) with a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 km/h). It carries most of the deliveries brought there from national railway operators. The company makes one scheduled delivery per month to Myrtle Beach City.
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- Farrow Parkway
- Ocean Boulevard
- Harrelson Boulevard
- Robert Edge Parkway
- Robert Grissom Parkway
In the last decade, new roads have been created to reduce congestion caused by visitor entry each year. Most of these roads follow the Metro Loop Road Plan, held in 1997 to increase Myrtle Beach traffic flow. Some roads include been funded through RIDE I funding or through Myrtle Beach Beach.
The RIDE II plan covers the third phase of S.C. Highway 31, Farrow Parkway and US 17 Bypass separation at the back gates of the former Air Force headquarters, and many other projects. County is currently debating where to allocate $ 400 million generated through the proposed 1 cent sales tax. Other road projects in Horry County, including some at Aynor and Conway, will be included when selected.
There are plans for the Grand Strand area which is finally served by two interstate, Interstate 73 and Interstate 74. Robert Edge Parkway will connect I-74 to downtown North Myrtle Beach.
Sports
The Grand Strand is home to Pelicans Myrtle Beach, the Carolina League baseball team and the Chicago Cubs agricultural franchise.
TicketReturn.com Field is home to Pelicans Beach Myrtle and is located in Myrtle Beach. Opened in 1999 and accommodating 6,500 people. This is the final point of Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon, an athletic event held in February every year.
TicketReturn.com Field is also home to the annual Baseball At The Beach baseball tournament. Organized by Coastal Carolina University each year, the tournament pit participates in the NCAA Division I baseball program in the United States.
From 1998-2009 and starting again in 2011 (no Saturday race held in 2010), the area hosts the Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon presented by Chick-Fil-A >, every February featuring (since 2004)) Friday night Royal Bank of Canada 5K and Saturday Dasani Half Marathon and Bi-Lo Marathon (from 1998 to 2008, relay held but down due to the popularity of other events). The marathon draws a limit of 6,000 runners every year (2,500 full, 3,500 and a half) and the result is usually in unusual dawn when the race begins before dawn (06.30) to finish at 14.30.
NASCAR-sanctioned car race was held at Myrtle Beach Speedway, a. 538 miles (0.866 km), semi-banked, asphalt-asphalt oval track located in US 501. Drivers in the Final Model class will compete against the Greenville-Pickens Speedway for the South Carolina Championships at NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. The South Carolina Champions score will be counted against other state and provincial champions for continental championships.
It hosts the 2010 UOA Nationals where 8 teams of top colleges from 5 conferences will be represented.
Golf
This area is home to many golf courses and mini golf courses along the Grand Strand and further inland. Myrtle Beach has been called the "World Golf Capital" because of the 120 golf courses located there, a record 4.2 million rounds played, and many mini golf courses. 3.7 million total rounds of golf were played in 2007. Most golf courses in this area are public. Some of the famous golf courses and/or resorts include:
Media
Television
The Grand Strand and Florence, South Carolina share a common market set by Nielsen Media Research in Horry, Marion, Dillon, Darlington, Marlboro, Scotland, Robeson, and Florence districts.
Newspapers
The Sun News is the largest daily newspaper published along the Grand Strand, with a reader base stretching from Georgetown, South Carolina, to Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Paper has been in existence since the 1930s and published by Knight Ridder before the company was purchased by The McClatchy Company.
There are several weekly papers, including The Weekly Surge, Myrtle Beach Herald, and Horry Independent.
References
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