First to Strike a Match in Darlington County! – Darlington County Historical Commission & Museum

In 1826, John Walker, an English chemist and druggist from Stockton on Tees, discovered through lucky accident that a stick coated with chemicals burst into flame when scraped across his hearth at home. He went on to invent the first friction match. Until the first half of the nineteenth century, the process by which fire…

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History of Darlington - The City of Darlington, South Carolina

Darlington County Historical Marker Program – Darlington County Historical Commission & Museum

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