Marlboro

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) This area has been the center of the African-American business district and a popular gathering place since the late 19th century.

Welsh Neck, SC

ABEL KOLB’S MURDER (Front) Colonel Abel Kolb was a prominent Revolutionary War Patriot of this area.

Wallace, SC

In Gillespie Cemetery, west of here, is buried Albert M. Shipp, Methodist minister, Professor of History at the University of North...

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) The family cemetery of Joshua Ammons (1756-1833), veteran of the American Revolution, is all that remains of his 500-acre...

Bristow, SC

Governor Henagan (1798-1855), son of Drusilla and Darby Henagan, planter and physician, lived about one mile northwest of this site.

Sw Of Blenheim, SC

BATTLE OF HUNT’S BLUFF (Front) On July 25, 1780, a convoy of British boats en route from Cheraw to Georgetown was captured here by local...

Bennettsville, SC

In 1819 the court house of Marlborough District was transferred from Carlisle, a village on the Pee Dee River, to this more central...

Bennettsville, SC

The first Methodist house of worship in Marlboro County was at Beauty Spot, two miles north of here, where, in 1788, Bishop Asbury...

Bennettsville, SC

130 Broad St., corner of Broad St. (S.C. Hwy. 38) and McColl St., Bennettsville (Front) This church was founded in 1855 by nine members...

(Front) In 1788, this Baptist congregation, a branch of Cashaway Church (1756) founded by Welsh Neck Church (1738), purchased land 2...

Clio, SC

McLaurin's Muster Ground, located at this crossroads, became a polling place in 1825.

Bennettsville, SC

D.D. MCCOLL HOUSE 1826 (Front) This house, built in 1826 on Darlington St. (now Main St.), was first owned by H.H. Covington.

Tatum, SC

This cabinet member and diplomat was born two miles south of here.

Breeden, SC

About 1836 William T. Ellerbe, John McQueen, and John N. Williams built a cotton mill approximately one mile northwest.

Bennettsville, SC

This marks the oldest house in Bennettsville, built in 1800 by Edward Crosland, who was born in England and later married Ann Snead.

Bristow, SC

FREDERICK CHARLES HANS BRUNO POELLNITZ (Front) Born 1754 [1734] in Gotha, Germany, this former chamberlain to King Frederick the Great of...

Bennettsville, SC

This U.S. congressman was born on February 9, 1804, at Queensdale, N.C. After being admitted to the bar in 1828, he established a law...

W Of Bennettsville, SC

GRAVE OF TRISTAM THOMAS (Front) In Saw Mill Church cemetery is the grave of Tristram Thomas, major of militia during the Revolution.

Bristow, SC

MASON LEE (Front) Mason Lee (1770-1821), a wealthy Pee Dee planter known for his eccentricities, is buried in old Brownsville graveyard...

Monroe Crossroads, SC

GREAT PEE DEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Front) This church, built in 1834, was organized by Rev. Archibald McQueen and is the oldest church...

Wallace, SC

GREENE’S ENCAMPMENT (Front) During December 1780, Major General Nathanael Greene, commander of the Southern Army, brought a number of...

Bennettsville, SC

J.F. KINNEY HOUSE (Front) This house was built as a one-story residence in 1902 for Dr. John Frank Kinney (1870-1928) and his wife...

Bennettsville, SC

In 1826 Dr. Edward W. Jones bought a lot at S. Marlboro and present E. Main and built this house thereon shortly after.

* Replaced a marker erected by the same commission in 1971.

Wallace, SC

Near this site stood Stony Hill, boyhood home of John Lyde Wilson, State Senator and Representative, Governor of South Carolina from 1822...

Bennettsville, SC

Constructed in 1853, this house was the home of William D. Johnson, a Bennettsville attorney and one of three Marlboro County signers of...

Bennettsville, SC

Four court houses for Marlborough District or County have stood on this square since Apr. 4, 1820, when it was deeded by John S. Thomas...

Welsh Neck, SC

MARLBOROUGH COURT HOUSE (Front) Located about one mile N. of here was the original county seat of Marlborough County, established in 1785.

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) The Miller-Turner House is situated on a 450-acre land grant issued in 1772.

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) The Murchison School, built in 1902, was named for John D. Murchison (1826-1892), a merchant and the first mayor of Bennettsville.

Bennettsville, SC

Here stood the first Methodist church of Marlboro County, a single log cabin built in 1783.

Bennettsville, SC

The oldest part of this building served as Bennettsville Female Academy 1833-1881.

Bennettsville, SC

PALMER FIELD (Front) Palmer Field, originally Marlboro Aviation School, operated here from Oct. 1941 to Nov. 1944 as a primary training...

Nw Of Wallace, SC

PEGUES PLACE (Front) About 1760, French Huguenot immigrant Claudius Pegues settled in this area.

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) Built in 1917 as an opera house and theater, “The Playhouse” was considered among the finest theaters in the Pee Dee.

Blenheim, SC

ROBERT BLAIR CAMPBELL (Front) This U.S. Congressman and diplomat was born at Woodstock (Argyle) Plantation, 3 ½ miles southwest.

Bennettsville, SC

(Front) According to a plaque placed on its western wall at time of construction, Shiness was built in 1903 by Alexander James Matheson...

Society Hill, SC

Welsh Baptists from Pennsylvania and Delaware settled on the east bank of the Pee Dee as early as 1737.