Month: August 2018
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Hartsville Graded School / Mt. Pisgah Nursery School
This photograph, circa 1902, shows Hartsville’s first Black School at the corner of Sixth Street and Marion Avenue. The photo is courtesy of T.B. & Lovis Thomas. It was printed in the Hartsville Messenger on January 29, 1999 and was a part of a Black History Month Special. Darlington County Historical Marker Marker ID: SCHM…
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Document Conservation done on Hidden Treasures
Early this morning, while working on a map file at the Commission, a Commission staffer and a volunteer came across 17 fragments of parer filed away in plastic sleeves. The cashe was immediately brought to my attention and the priorities of the day immediately changed. The fragments were removed from their plastic protectors and I…
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Soapbox Derby winner donates car to Historical Commission
Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (The News & Press Website) By Samantha Lyles, Staff Writer, slyles@newsandpress.net A relic of Darlington’s racing past will soon be on display at the Darlington County Historical Commission, thanks to a donation by a local citizen. Hartsville native Tommy Jordan has raced cars and motorcycles from coast to coast,…
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Help Us Identify Photos
Thanks to our new website, we are posting unidentified photos from within our collections here at the Historical Commission. We are counting on more people discovering photographs they haven’t seen before, even family pictures. Most exciting for the Commission staff is the help the community is giving us with identifying people in the photos, using…