Museum Musings
1941 – Darlington County, SC. The Black Creek Protection Association is granted their State Charter. General History: 1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians (“divines”) and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London. 1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American […]
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the “Declaration of the People of Virginia”, beginning Bacon’s […]
James Elliott Williams (November 13, 1930 – October 13, 1999) was a sailor of the United States Navy during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the most highly decorated enlisted man in the history of the United States Navy. Williams was born in Fort Mill, South Carolina and moved two months later with his parents […]
Today in Darlington County History on Tuesday, June 29, 1920 the Segars' Bathing Resort in Hartsville, is chartered.
Timeline provided by the Darlington County Historical Commission and related article by Bill Segars, as printed in the Darlington News & Press.
The Attached article ran Friday, June 10, 2016 in the Augusta Chronicle, August Georgia. We are honored that we have such an amazing document and be able to share it with our our citizens. June 10, 2016 http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/2016-06-10/371-year-old-bible-shares-long-history-sc-county