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Existing County | Cultural Resources

This church, organized ca. 1770, is the first
Presbyterian church in what is now Florence
County. Many of its founding families came
Hopewell 34° 7.703′ N, to S.C. from Scotland and Ireland. The first
21-25
Presbyterian Church 79° 37.41′ W church here, a frame building, stood across
Old River Road with the church cemetery
around it, but burned soon after it was
completed.
In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the
U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an
Atomic Bomb atomic bomb near here. The unarmed
Accident at Mars 34° 11.801′ N, 7,600-lb., 10’8”-long bomb was aboard a B-
21-26
Bluff, March 11, 79° 39.796′ W 47E bomber on a training mission headed
1958 for England. Its high-explosive trigger
detonated on impact, making a crater as
large as 35 feet deep and 70 feet wide.
This house was built in 1846 for Evander A.
Gregg (1818-1874), a planter in what was
Marion District. Its high masonry basement
and porch form, indigenous to northeastern
34° 10.513′ N,
21-27 Red Doe S.C., make it a fine example of a raised
79° 38.903′ W
Carolina cottage. It was acquired by R.L.
Singletary (1830-1910) in 1867 and by J.W.
Wallace (1861-1928) in 1912. The plantation
was named Red Doe in the 1930s.
This area, in what was then Williamsburg
Township, was settled as early as 1754 by
members of the Dick, Graham, McAllister,
Scott, and other families. Several residents
served under Francis Marion during the
33° 52.299′ N,
21-28 Lake City Revolution. By the 1820s this community
79° 45.183′ W
was sometimes called “the crossroads” for
the intersection of two major roads (one
from Georgetown to Camden, the other
from Charleston to Cheraw), now Main and
Church Streets.

Florence County, SC | Comprehensive Plan pg. 87