Snapshot of some of Myrtle Beach’s major milestones

2013

March 12 – Myrtle Beach turns 75

2011

Myrtle Beach SkyWheel opens

2010

Myrtle Beach boardwalk opens

2008

The Market Common opens on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

2006

Myrtle Beach Pavilion Amusement Park closes and is demolished

Myrtle Square Mall demolished

Historic Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum and Learning Center opens

2004

Myrtle Beach Train Depot restored

Coastal Grand mall opens

1995

Broadway at the Beach opens

1993

Myrtle Beach Air Force Base closes

1992

Chapin Department Store closes

1989

Hurricane Hugo hits Myrtle Beach area

1975

Myrtle Square Mall opens

1974

Ocean Forest Hotel demolished

1965

Myrtle Beach High School integrated

1958

Ocean View Hospital opens in Myrtle Beach

1957

Myrtle Beach becomes a city

1954

Hurricane Hazel ravages Myrtle Beach and much of the Grand Strand

“Sports Illustrated” magazine gets its start at Pine Lakes Country Club

1953

Carver Training School opens; eliminates need for Myrtle Beach Colored School, which closes

1948

Myrtle Beach Pavilion opens

Gay Dolphin opens

1941

Myrtle Beach Air Force Base established

1938

March 12 – Myrtle Beach incorporated as a town

1937

Peaches Corner opens

1936

Second Avenue Pier built

Intracoastal Waterway completed

Myrtle Beach Train Depot built

1932

Myrtle Beach Colored School opens; first school in the city to educate black students

1930

Ocean Forest Hotel opens, marketed as a place halfway between New York and Florida

Late 1920s

Seaside Inn demolished

1929

Road between Myrtle Beach and Conway paved for the first time with rock and asphalt

1928

Myrtle Beach’s first high school dedicated

1927

Ocean Forest Club is built as Myrtle Beach’s first golf course. Later renamed Pine Lakes Country Club

Chapin Department Store opens

1923

Two-story wooden pavilion built on the oceanfront; it burns down in 1944 but is rebuilt

1914

First road to Myrtle Beach built, connecting the town with Conway; ran through Socastee and made of sand

1907

Myrtle Beach is selected from a contest to give New Town its official name; named for the native wax myrtle shrub

1901

First hotel, Seaside Inn, is built by Burroughs and Collins Co.

Early 1900s

First schools built in Myrtle Beach

1900

First train runs, connecting Myrtle Beach – known as New Town at the time – and Conway

1881

Burroughs and Collins Co. of Conway buys land that will later become Myrtle Beach

This story was originally published March 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM with the headline "Snapshot of some of Myrtle Beach’s major milestones."