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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIL_thomas-e-hart-house_Hartsville-SC.html
This house was the residence of Captain Thomas Edwards Hart, who settled on these lands in 1817, and for whom Hartsville was named. He was a Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Board of Free Schools, planter, merchant, and was appointed first Po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIK_jacob-kelley-house_Hartsville-SC.html
This house, 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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPIH_mount-pleasant-baptist-church-lowthers-hill-cemetery_Darlington-SC.html
Marker Front:Mount Pleasant Baptist ChurchMount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPID_darlington-county-jail_Darlington-SC.html
Side A This building, a New Deal project of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Public Works Administration (PWA), was built in 1937 at a cost of $60,000. Called "one of the most modern jails in the South," it was designed by Rock Hill architect Alfred D. Gil…
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/HMPI7_andrew-hunter_Florence-SC.html
Side A Andrew Hunter (d. 1823), planter, state representative, and county official, is buried in the Hunter family cemetery about 400 ft. south. During the American Revolution he ran a grist mill several miles south on High Hill Creek, supplying m…
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