| South Carolina (Dillon County), Bingham — 17-10 — Reedy Creek Springs |
| | About 0.4 miles NW is Reedy Creek Springs, known for the medicinal value of its water. Here, before the turn of the century, William B. Allen laid out a quadrangle of a few acres, planted water oaks, and built a pavilion, hotel, cottages, and stables. The spa became popular as a gathering place for religious, educational, cultural, and social groups from a wide area.
Reedy Creek Springs was a popular Pee Dee area resort for a number of years before and after 1900, and visitors traveled . . . — Map (db m17312) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Centerville — 17-4 — Joel Allen House |
| | This house, located ¼ mile east, was built about 1857 by Joel Allen, Baptist minister who organized and served many churches in the Pee Dee area 1838–1884. He represented Marion County in the S.C. General Assembly 1870–1872. His son, W.B. Allen, added a second story to the 1½ story dwelling about 1891. The present kitchen was built about 1940 by J.J. Allen. — Map (db m17839) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — 17-8 — Dillon County / Dillon County Courthouse |
| | Originally in colonial Craven County, this area became part of Georgetown District, 1769; Liberty County, 1785; Marion District, 1798; and Marion County, 1868. The movement to separate this county from upper Marion County began some years before the General Assembly enacted the bill creating Dillon County. It was signed by Governor Martin F. Ansel, Feb. 5, 1910, in the presence of Dillon citizens.
James W. Dillon and his son Thomas gave one-half of this block for erection of the Dillon . . . — Map (db m24722) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — Duncan McLaurin — 1847–1934 — Father of Dillon |
| | First settler, first merchant, first mayor, first postmaster, chairman of first school board. Post Office in his store—20 feet north of this point. This memorial erected in 1990 by his family. — Map (db m16821) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — James W. Dillon |
| | Founder of Dillon and Father of Dillon County. A man of firm convictions, gentle manners and generous impulses, who loved and believed his fellow man. A loyal citizen, a public benefactor, who gave freely of the fruits of a rich and resourceful mind for the spiritual, intellectual and material advancement of the town and county he loved so well. — Map (db m24725) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — 17-2 — James W. Dillon House Museum |
| | This house was built in 1890 as the home of James W. Dillon, the father of Dillon County, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Purchased by the Dillon County Historical Society in 1967, it was moved to this site and restored as a museum to preserve a record of those who contributed to the development of Dillon County. — Map (db m24747) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — 17-13 — Main Street Methodist Church |
| | This church, founded in
1892, built its first
sanctuary at West Main St.
and Third Ave., where the
Dillon County Courthouse
now stands. That lot was
donated by James W. Dillon
(1826–1913), for whom the
town and county are named.
The original church, a
frame building, was moved
to the corner of Third Ave.
and Hudson St. in 1910 to
make way for the new county
courthouse, completed
in 1911.
The first sanctuary here,
a brick cruciform church in
the Gothic Revival . . . — Map (db m18513) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — 17-11 — Pee Dee Church |
| | Duncan McIntire, a licensed minister who preached in Gaelic for those who could speak no other language, organized this Presbyterian congregation shortly before 1829. The present vernacular Gothic Revival structure was completed by 1851. A number of other congregations had their beginnings in this church. — Map (db m18516) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Dillon — 17-12 — Town of Dillon / Florence Railroad Company |
| | Town of Dillon.
Dillon was laid out by civil engineers of the Florence Railroad Company following a plan by John H. David, a local physician. The town was incorporated by the General Assembly on December 22, 1888, and its boundaries extended in a half-mile radius from the railroad depot. The first mayor and postmaster of the town was Duncan McLaurin. In 1893, a freight station was constructed, and in 1904, the present passenger depot was built.
Florence Railroad Company. In 1882, . . . — Map (db m16826) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Lake View — 17-1 — The Meeting House |
| | On December 22, 1801, one acre on the north side of Bear Swamp was deeded for the use of the Baptist Society. Local tradition says that the meeting house which stood on this tract was built in 1780s and was used as a camp site by travelers between Fayetteville and Georgetown. In 1831, the Baptist Society was constituted as Bear Swamp Church. — Map (db m5084) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Latta — 17-6 — Catfish Creek Baptist Church |
| | This Baptist Church, constituted in 1802, has ordained eleven ministers, provided a missionary to Brazil, and has assisted in establishing a number of other churches. The present house of worship, dedicated in 1883 with portico added in 1970, is on the National Register of Historic Places. — Map (db m17815) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Little Rock — 17-7 — Saint Paul Methodist Church |
| | This church was established prior to 1803 and was known as Liberty Chapel. The present structure, built in 1871, is significant both for its architecture and as a reflection of Methodism in the Pee Dee area. A Victorian adaptation of the classic meeting-house form, St. Paul’s was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. — Map (db m17842) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Little Rock — 17-5 — Selkirk Farm |
| | David Satterwhite was granted 177 acres here in 1789 by Charles Pinckney, Governor of S. C. In 1855 this tract passed into the hands of The Rev. James A. Cousar, who added a three acre tract in 1858 on which he built the present house, gin house and outbuildings. The name originated from a nearby post office which was discontinued in 1901. — Map (db m17841) |
| South Carolina (Dillon County), Oak Grove — 17-3 — Early Cotton Press |
| | This cotton press, built in 1798 according to tradition, is thought by many to be the oldest in existence. It was first owned and used by John Bethea III, and later by Henry Berry. Powered by oxen or mules rotating the beam to tighten the press, it was rendered obsolete by modern machinery. A Berry descendant moved it to this site about 1946 to preserve it. — Map (db m17773) |
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