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Myrtle Beach

About Myrtle Beach

The City of Myrtle Beach is a residential and vacation community at the heart of South Carolina's Grand Strand coast.  Our 35,000-plus permanent residents and millions of visitors enjoy wide beaches, warm weather and an incredible range of entertainment and activities.  Myrtle Beach was incorporated in 1938 and became a city in 1957, when the permanent population first topped 5,000.  The name "Myrtle Beach" comes from the wax myrtle, an abundant local shrub, and was chosen in a name-the-town contest in 1900. 

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