GEORGETOWN, a city of South Carolina, U.S.A., at the head of Winyah bay, 14m. from the ocean; a port of entry and the county seat of Georgetown county. It is served by the Sea board Air Line railway and by river and ocean steamers. The population was 4,579 in 1920; 1930, 5,082. It has turpentine dis tilleries and other factories, and is a shipping point for cotton, turpentine, resin, lumber and rice. The commerce of the bay in 1925 amounted to 273,866 tons, valued at $6,907,038. The first settlement here was made about 1700, and the town was laid out before 1734. In 1757 the Winyah Indigo Society (growing out of a social club organized about 1740) was founded by a group of planters interested in the cultivation of indigo. During the Revolution Georgetown was the scene of several skirmishes, and here Gen. Lafayette first landed on American soil (April 24, The town was incorporated in 18o5 and was chartered as a city in 1895.