Museum Musings
September 18-20, 1863 – The Battle of Chickamauga, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle of the war […]
On September 03, 1928 Hurricane San Felipe-Okeechobee wrecked havoc on the ACL Railroad trestle behind the cotton mill. Rails and cross ties were left dangling after the supports were washed away. Darlington County received the largest documented rainfall from the storm. A record 12.53 inches. The Okeechobee hurricane, also known as San Felipe Segundo hurricane, […]
Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with the Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven […]
Today in Darlington County History - endorsing the War of 1812 & organization of the masonic order - the Knights of Jerico.
2 PM will mark the 136th anniversary of the historic duel between E.C.B. Cash, a wealthy planter from Cash's Depot, located between Cheraw and Society Hill, along the Great Pee Dee River, and Col. William Shannon, Silver-haired Camden lawyer and sire of 14 children. We know that the exact spot there Shannon fell mortally wounded, lies in the middle of highway 15, just 500 yards east of the Hartsville side of DuBose's bridge, which spans Lynches River three miles east of Hartsville. We know that the spot from which Cash stood when he fired the fatal shot is now the location of what was a combination grocery store and service station. We know that the day was marked with over 100 spectators that had gathered to watch the show.
General History: 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. 1613 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place. 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the […]