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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIC_mont-clare-community-center_Darlington-SC.html
Side A This community center, the first in Darlington County, was built in 1933 by area citizens. The land was donated by E.M. Williamson of Mont Clare Plantation, the cypress logs and other lumber were cut at T.C. Coxe's Skufful Plantation, and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIB_john-westfield-lide-house_Darlington-SC.html
Side A This Greek Revival house was built ca. 1840 for John Westfield Lide (1794-1858), planter and state representative. Lide, the son of Maj. Robert Lide and Mary Westfield Holloway Lide, was a member of the third graduating class at S.C. Colleg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIA_john-l-hart-house_Darlington-SC.html
[Front] This house was built ca. 1856 for John Lide Hart (1825-1864), merchant and Confederate officer. Hart, who lived in Hartsville, named for his father Thomas E. Hart, founded a carriage and harness factory there in 1851. In 1853 he and partne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI9_darlington-memorial-cemetery_Darlington-SC.html
Side A This cemetery, established in 1890, was originally a five-acre tract when it was laid out as the cemetery for the nearby Macedonia Baptist Church. The first African American cemetery in Darlington, it includes about 1,900 graves dating from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI8_julius-a-dargan-house_Darlington-SC.html
Side A This house was built in 1856 for Julius A. Dargan (1815-1861). Built on land acquired from Jesse H. Lide in 1839, the house is a fine example of the Greek Revival style. Dargan briefly taught school and practiced law with his brother G.W. D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI6_darlington-memorial-center_Darlington-SC.html
This house was built in 1889 by Charles McCullough (1853-1908), who served as town councilman and later as mayor. It was for many years a recreation center for local youth. The Darlington Memorial Center, chartered in 1946 as a memorial to Darling…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI5_wilds-edwards-house-samuel-hugh-wilds_Darlington-SC.html
[Front] This Italianate house, designed by J.L. Clickner, was built 1856-57 for planter Samuel H. Wilds (1819-1867). According to tradition Clickner returned in early 1865 as a Union soldier and persuaded his superiors not to burn the house during…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI4_henry-dad-brown_Darlington-SC.html
[Front] Henry "Dad" Brown (1830-1907), a black veteran of the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars, is buried 75' N with his wife Laura. Variously said to have been born free or born as a slave who purchased his and Laura's freedom, he was bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPI0_first-baptist-church_Darlington-SC.html
Side A Established in 1831 as Darlington Baptist Church of Christ, with Rev. W.Q. Beattie as its first minister; joined the Welsh Neck Association in 1832. The first sanctuary, built in 1830 just before the church was formally organized, was repla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPHZ_darlington-county-darlington-county-courthouse_Darlington-SC.html
Darlington County This area become part of St. David's Parish in 1768, Cheraws District in 1769, and then Darlington County on March 12, 1785. In 1800 Darlington became a circuit court district, and again a county in 1868. Extensive territory was …
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