16-62 Oates
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N 34° 15.196 W 080° 04.657
17S E 584927 N 3790623
The marker is located on SC 403 near the intersection with 7 Pines Rd in the community of Oates.
Waymark Code: WMZDR3
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2018
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Plaque Text:
(Front)
Oates, a thriving rural community from the 1880s to the 1930s, grew up around a general store built nearby by William J. Oates (1826-1897). Oates´s father James (1786-1873) had acquired a plantation here in 1824. William J. Oates, who moved to Florida and served in the Confederate army in a Florida unit, came home to Darlington District after the war.
(Reverse)
This crossroads was named Oates in 1880, when a post office was opened in the general store. Union Academy, founded about the same time, was succeeded by the Oates School in the 1930s. A spur off the Lydia-Lamar line of the Seaboard Air Line RR ran to Oates from 1912 to 1937. The Bank of Oates, founded in 1916, closed during the agricultural depression of the mid-to-late 1920s.
Erected by the Darlington County Historical Commission, 2010
Marker Name: Oates
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Other
Marker number: 16-62
County: Darlington
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