| Name of Notable | Genus | AsNotedIn | No | Address | Proximity | Area |
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| Salters Plantation House |
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Gapway Rd (Co Rd 197) |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1735/01/11 | James Witherspoon, Patriot | Owner | James Witherspoon is granted three hundred acres on Black River (Martin Luther King Jr Ave, SC 377 near Hwy 521). | |||
| 1735/02/01 | Robert Witherspoon | Life | When we came to the Bluff. My mother and us children were still in expectation that we were coming to an agreeable place, but when we arrived and saw nothing but a wilderness and instead of a fine timbered house, nothing but a very mean dirt house, - RW | |||
| 1781/03/14 | South Carolina 4th Regiment of State Dragoons | Patriot Militia | Patriot Major John James with seventy men, including 30 of Capt William McCottry's riflemen, take up position at the Lower Bridge on the Black River and the road to Kingstree. | Battle Of Lower Bridge | ||
| 1781/03/14 | J Tadwell-Watson brings his cannon to bear on Marion's position but is repulsed by sharpshooters, losing a captain and four men. Watson retreats to Witherspoon's Plantation, about a 1 mile north. "I have never seen such shooting before in my life." JTW | Battle Of Lower Bridge | ||||
| 1781/03/14 | Francis Marion | Patriot Commander | Positioned on the north bank of Black River, Francis Marion and his expert riflemen defeat stop a larger force of British artillerymen and Loyalist militiamen advancing from the west. | Battle Of Lower Bridge | ||
| 1788/04/05 | Robert Witherspoon | Died | Robert Witherspoon dies at about age 59 in Kingstree, Williamsburg, South Carolina. Mr Witherspoon is buried in the Witherspoon Burying Ground on Martin Luther King Jr (377), about 7 miles south of Kingstree. | |||
| 1788/04/05 | James Witherspoon, Patriot | Born | Jemas Witherspoon dies at about age 68 in Kingstree, Province of South Carolina. Mr Witherspoon is buried in the Witherspoon family cemetery along Thorntree creek on Martin Luther King Jr (377), about 7 miles south of Kingstree. |
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| Locale Type | Hamlet |
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