About Us:

Chadbourn Lumber Company of Wilmington, NC had been engaged in logging for a number of years and operated saw mills just across the North Carolina state line. In the normal course of business they would construct rail lines to facilitate getting their lumber to their mills. Eventually Chadbourn Lumber Company decided to extend their rail lines into Horry County. The first train made the Wilmington to Conway trip on December 15, 1887.

James Gould Patterson, who had bought land around the tracks from Chadbourn Lumber Company, began selling lots to merchants and others who wanted to locate nearby. The Town of Loris was incorporated on July 26, 1902.

Loris was the first city in South Carolina to have its own newspaper, high school, bank, complete telephone system, doctor and developed one of the earliest and largest cotton markets within the state.