The purpose of this page is to educate the public about the history of Horry (oh-ree) County
606 Main Street
Conway, SC
29526
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The Horry County Historical Society is headquartered in the W.L. Bryan House and located on the site of the first Burroughs Graded School, 1879-1905, which replaced an earlier school that stood near Fifth Avenue between Elm and Laurel Streets and was known as the old Conwayborough Academy.
By 1903 the old Burroughs Graded School building was outgrown and in 1905 a new school building was completed just up Main Street on the corner of Main Street and Ninth Avenue. The old school building was left standing and was rented out as a residence. In 1912 that building was destroyed by fire.
After the old Burroughs Graded School building burned in the spring of 1912, Mr. William Lamar Bryan purchased the property. He had this house built in the winter of 1912-1913 as a home for his wife, the former Miss Leethard Douglass Lewis of Ridgeway, Fairfield County, S.C. Early records show the property was bordered by Main Street and Seventh Avenue. (That part of Seventh Avenue had previously been called the “Sawdust Road”.) About 1926 the name of the portion of Seventh Avenue that led from Main Street down to Kingston Lake was changed to Lakeside Drive. In the 1990s that name was further changed to Kingston Lake Drive.
