McClellanville is a small fishing town in rural Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 605 at the 2020 census. It is situated on the Atlantic coast, on land surrounded by
Jeremy Creek at McClellanville; looking upstream
Hurricane Hugo
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Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989. The eleventh tropical cyclo
McClellanville, South Carolina
…economic center for a wide area that produced timber, rice, cotton, naval stores, and seafoods. In 1989 the town was devastated by the full brunt of Hurricane Hugo which destroyed homes, downed century-old oaks, deposited shrimp boats in front yards, and otherwise altered much of the picturesque character of this…
Hugo making landfall on South Carolina early on September 22
Damaged beachfront property in South Carolina
Charleston was heavily impacted by Hugo
Wrecked mobile homes along the South Carolina coast