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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIY_hartsville-oil-mill_Hartsville-SC.html
Side A The Hartsville Oil Mill, founded in 1900 by J.L. Coker, D.R. Coker, and J.J. Lawton, stood here until 1993. A cotton oil mill, it crushed cottonseed to produce cooking oil; meal and cake for feed and fertilizer; and lint for stuffing and ex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIX_butler-school_Hartsville-SC.html
Butler School, located on this site since 1921, was the second public school to serve Hartsville's black community and operated for over sixty years. Known as the Darlington Co. Training School until 1939, it was renamed for Rev. Henry H. Butler, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIW_first-baptist-church_Hartsville-SC.html
Side A Members of New Providence and Gum Branch Baptist churches under John L. Hart's leadership began Hartsville Baptist, the first church in town, 16 November 1850. A union Sunday school met on the site as early as July 1849. John L. Hart donate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIU_welsh-neck-high-school-coker-college_Hartsville-SC.html
Welsh Neck High School The Welsh Neck Baptist Association initiated this institution as a coeducational boarding school. It opened Sept. 17, 1894, through the generosity of Maj. James Lide Coker, Civil War veteran, local industrialist, and the sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIT_eastern-carolina-silver-company_Hartsville-SC.html
This silver co., chartered March 5, 1907, manufactured and sold coffee and tea sets, bread trays, bowls, candelabra, and cups. J. L. Coker served as pres., W. F. Smith as vice pres., and C. W. Coker as sec. & treas. By 1908 the company had begun t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIS_carolina-fiber-co-sonoco-products-company_Hartsville-SC.html
Carolina Fiber Co. One of the first methods for producing paper from native pine wood pulp was developed by J. L. Coker, Jr. As a result, he with Maj. J. L. Coker and C. J. Woodruff formed the Carolina Fiber company, March 20, 1890, to manufacture…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIR_david-robert-coker-1870-1938_Hartsville-SC.html
Known world-wide for developing new varieties and for perfecting superior strains of agricultural crops (including cotton), Coker, for years was pres. Pedigreed Seed Co., chartered 1918. He was intendant (mayor) of Hartsville 1900-1901; member Nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIQ_james-lide-coker_Hartsville-SC.html
Side A James L. Coker (1837-1918) came here from Society Hill ca. 1858 as a planter. While serving in the Civil War as a captain in Co. E, 6th Regiment SC Volunteers, he was seriously wounded. Promoted to major in 1864, he was a member of the SC H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIO_john-l-hart-john-hart-house-1_Hartsville-SC.html
John L. Hart In 1845, John Lide Hart (1825-1864) bought a 491-acre plantation here. Along what is now Home Avenue, he built a carriage factory, a store, a steam-powered sawmill and grist-mill, and houses for himself and his workers. Hart also dona…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIM_lower-fork-of-lynches-creek-baptist-church-gum-branch-church_Hartsville-SC.html
Lower Fork Of Lynches Creek Baptist Church This church, which probably evolved from a branch meeting house built nearby in 1770 by First Lynches Creek Church, was constituted in 1789; Joshua Palmer became minister in the same year. The church held…