At first the majority of Georgetown s trade was with the Indians. Soon the Indian trade declined and indigo became the cash crop with rice the secondary crop. After the American Revolutionary war rice became the staple crop. The low lands along the rivers were ideal for growing rice. By 1840 the Georgetown district produced nearly one half of the total rice crop of the United States.
International paper is the paper mill that is in Georgetown.
It was built in 1937 and it manufactured the first paper in South Carolina.