Category: Historical Marker
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Spotlight On: Long Bluff
One of the first settlements within the boundary of present day Darlington County was that at Long Bluff in 1748. It also was the site of the historical Long Bluff Courthouse established by the Circuit Court Act of the Legislature of 1769, making it one of six operating Courthouses established at that time outside Charleston.…
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SPOTLIGHT ON: John L. Hart
In 1845, a twenty-year-old John L. Hart bought from his brother-in-law Colonel T.c. Law some 491 acres of virgin pine forest. Here he established Hartsville Plantation and thus it was known as late as 1913. The Plantation ran along East Home Avenue to U.S. 15, now known as Fifth Street, which dead-ended on Home Avenue,…
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Lawrence Reese, master carpenter and merchant
At the age of 21 or 22, Lawrence Reese came to Darlington, S.C., where he married Lula Aiken. According to an article in The Community Times dated May 3, 2001, Dr. McGirt, Lula’s father, asked young Lawrence how he would support his new bride, and Lawrence replied that he was a carpenter. Dr. McGirt, needing…
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The Jacob Kelley House – Encampment of the Third Division, Fifteenth Union Army Corps
Today in Darlington County History, March 1-3, 1865, This house, the home of Jacob Kelley (1780-1874), was used as a Union headquarters on March 2-3, 1865 by Major-General John E. Smith, Commander of the Third Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. During the encampment by Federal forces, the mills near Kelley Town were run for the benefit…
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Timeline of First Baptist Darlington 1829-1870
Timeline provided by the Darlington County Historical Commission and related article by Bill Segars, as printed in the Darlington News & Press.
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The Desecration of Lowther’s Hill Cemetery (aks Montrose)
Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have. — Benjamin Franklin
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Macedonia Baptist Church -Formed From Darlington First Baptist
Thirteen charter members from the First Baptist Church of Darlington; Evans Bell, Adam Brockenton, Peter Dargan, Fred Duncan, Lazarius Ervin, Hamilton Keith, Samuel Keith, Antrum Mclver, Samuel Mclver, Samuel Orr, Samuel Parnell, Jesse Williams, and Augustus Smalls.
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Long Bluff
Long Bluff, 314 mile east on Great Pee Dee River, was the site of the first courthouse and jail for old Cheraws District in 1772.