
45-6 Black Mingo - Willtown
N 33° 37.027 W 079° 26.113
17S E 645156 N 3720801
HM about early SC Colonial settlement. Located on Hwy 41/51 County Line Rd at intersection of Van Vlake Rd, one mile north of Rhems.
Waymark Code: WM2GFQ
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2007
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BLACK MINGO - WILLTOWNBy 1760, Charles Woodmason had established a store near here, following a 1745 Act of the General Assembly that provided for clearing of the watercourses at the head of Black Mingo Creek. Soon thereafter, schooners carried local products to Charlestown; by the early 1760s Black Mingo settlement, later known as Willtown, had developed on the creek.
ERECTED BY THREE RIVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1981The reverse of this marker contains the text for
Black Mingo Baptist Church.