08/21/2025
Trivia Thursday: Did you know that the Myrtle Beach Public Works crews and contractors occasionally find pieces of the original wooden water lines that were used along Ocean Boulevard and Kings Highway during the early 1900s? The four-inch square cypress piping has a two-and-a-half inch circular opening through which the water flowed. The wooden, gravity-fed water lines were used until the early 1930s, when the first pressurized water system was installed, several years before Myrtle Beach became an official town. A section of the old wooden pipe is on display in the Public Works Administration Building on Mr. Joe White Avenue.
