• ADDRESSES
  - local offices
  - genealogical society
  - libraries, etc.
• AFRICAN-AMERICAN
• ANNOUNCEMENTS
  - Family reunions
  - News items
• BIBLE RECORDS
• CEMETERIES
• CENSUS RECORDS
• CHURCH RECORDS
• COTTON
  - Cotton Mills
  - Cotton pickin'
• DEATH RECORDS
  (See Vital Records)
• DEEDS
  (See Land Records)
• EARLY SETTLERS
• ESTATE RECORDS
  (See Wills)
• FAMILY WEB PAGES
• FUNERAL HOMES
• HISTORY
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  --Anecdotes, tales, and legends
• LAND RECORDS
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  - Plats
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• MAIL LISTS
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• PROBATE RECORDS
  (See Wills)
• PUBLISHED RESOURCES and LOOKUPS
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• TRAVEL CENTER
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  - Birth, Death
  - Marriages
  - Rev. Campbell's Diary
• WILLS
• THE NEIGHBORS
  - Marion (Parent county)
  - Marlboro (West)
  - Horry (East)
  - Florence (SW)
  - Robeson, NC (North)
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Welcome to the Dillon County, South Carolina Genealogy and History Page in the SCGenWeb Project! My name is Victoria and I'm the coordinator for Dillon County as well as several other counties in the USGenWeb Project. We're an all-volunteer, non-profit organization, dedicated to providing FREE online genealogy for researchers. If you aren't already familiar with USGenWeb, you can learn more about the Project by clicking here.

This page is designed to be a resource for all Dillon County, South Carolina researchers and your comments and suggestions on how the page could be improved would be appreciated. Take a look around, use the resources I already have online, and do PLEASE tell me about new ones.

We need your help to make this an even better resource! If you have any data or documents relating to Dillon County that you would be willing to share here with other researchers, please contact me. Contribute whatever you can-- every little bit helps, and you never know what connections you might make!

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Dillon County Research

Although Dillon County is now over 90 years old, it's one of the youngest counties in South Carolina, and you will find that much of your genealogical research will be conducted in the records of Marion County (1785-1909) and in the records held at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in Columbia, SC (pre-1785).

County Formation and Vital Records (in brief)

Dillon County was founded in 1910, carved from Marion County, and named for James W. Dillon (1826-1913), an Irishman who settled there, prospered and headed a local movement to bring in the railroad which resulted in construction of the Wilson Short Cut Railroad (later part of the Atlantic Coastline RR). The county seat was also named for him. Swamps and rivers kept this section of the Pee Dee isolated for many years, but the construction of a railroad in the nineteenth century brought increased development. The residents primarily engaged in cotton and tobacco farming and in timber harvesting. Composer Carlisle Floyd was born in the Dillon County town of Latta.

From 1769 through 1798, the area known as Dillon County was included in Georgetown District, one of the original South Carolina judicial districts created in 1769. From 1798 through 1909, Dillon County was part of Marion County. In December 1909, residents voted to split from Marion, and Dillon County was officially created in 1910.

The county seat for Dillon is the city of Dillon (zip code 29536), famous for its No-Wait wedding chapel (lots of folks have been married there!) and for its proximity to South of the Border on I-95 (surely you've seen the billboards and bumper stickers).

The Dillon County Clerk of Court has civil court records, deeds, real estate and mortgages from 1910. For earlier records, contact the Marion County Clerk of Court.

If you have roots in Dillon County, you should check the records in all the surrounding counties, but primarily Marion County. In addition, many Dillon County ancestors can be found in the records of neighboring Robeson County, North Carolina.

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