Excerpt from History, Description and Resources of Darlington County: State of South Carolina
Darlington County lies in the Eastern portion of the State of South Carolina, and is a part of the rich and extensive valley formed by the Great Pee Dee and its tributaries.
The General Assembly, in 1785, by what is known as the County Court Act, divided the famous old Precinct of The Cheraws into the three Counties of Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlborough. In 1793, on the abolition of the County Courts, these, as well as the other judicial divisions of the State, received the name of Districts. The State Convention of 1868 declared that the judicial divisions of the State should, thenceforth, be denominated Counties.
The County is bounded on the Northeast by the Great Pee Dee River, which separates it from the County of Marlborough; Northwest by the County of Chesterfield, from which it is divided in part by Cedar Creek; Southwest by Lynche's Creek, separating it from the Counties of Sumter and Kershaw; and Southeast by the County of Marion, and Lynche's Creek separating it from the County of Williamsburg. It is of a very compact shape - approximating a square in form - contains 576,000 acres, and is, on an average, thirty miles square.
Darlington and the adjacent Counties lying along the Great Pee Dee, date their settlement from 1737, when a Colony of Welsh, from Pennsylvania, located on that River.
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