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The D.D. McColl House includes an 1826 house first built on Darlington St. (now Main St.) and first owned by H.H. Covington, then sold in 1871 to Duncan Donald McColl (1842 1911), a prominent Marlboro County lawyer and businessman whose family lived there until 1884; later moved to S. Liberty St., then McColl St., and finally to its present location by Hugh L. McColl, Jr., it was donated to the county by McColl in 1991. It also includes the Queen Anne house built in 1884 for D.D. McColl, featuring local brick made from yellow clay and stained to simulate red brick. McColl organized the S.C. & Pacific Railway in 1884, served as its first president, and brought the railroad to Bennettsville and nearby areas. He also helped organize the Bank of Marlboro in 1886 and the Bennettsville Cotton Mill in 1897, and the town of McColl was named after him.
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