Horry County leaders unveiled a sculpture of revolutionary war leader Peter Horry in Conway Monday afternoon.

Horry was a planter of French Huguenot descent born in 1747.

He served a Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary War under Francis Marion and later was a brigadier general in the state militia.

Horry served both in the South Carolina Senate and House.

What was then Kingston County was renamed as the Horry District in his honor in 1801.

In 1868, the district became Horry County.

Horry died in 1815 and is buried at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia.