Town Clock Historical Marker and
Rice Museum Entrance
Georgetown, South Carolina

Rice Museum Historical Marker

Marker Text:

Town Clock

This Greek Revival market and town hall was built in 1842 after a fire destroyed many of the frame buildings on Front Street. An open-air market occupied the first floor and the town hall occupied the second floor; the clock tower and belfry were added in 1845. On February 24, 1865 the town council, meeting here, surrendered Georgetown to officers of the U.S. Navy.

The Rice Museum opened in this building during the S.C. Tricentennial in 1970.

— Erected by the Georgetown County Historical Society, 1997.

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