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interested in expanding the growth of flue-cured 

 tobaccos and they sent experts into the state to 

 teach South Carolina farmers how to grow it. 



This type of tobacco first entered South Carolina 

 in Horry, Marion, Florence, Williamsburg, Dar- 

 lington, Sumter and Clarendon counties. 



A pioneer in the development of Bright tobacco 

 in the Pee Dee area was W. H. (Buck) Daniel 

 who planted his first crop in Mullins, today one 

 of the two largest markets in the state. Born in 

 North Carolina, Daniel enlisted in the Confed- 

 erate Army in 1861. He was captured and im- 

 prisoned in Elmira, New York, until his release 

 at the War's end. He walked back to North 

 Carolina and later moved to the Pee Dee section 

 of the state. 



In 1876, Daniel founded the W. H. Daniel Sup- 

 ply Company. He ultimately went on to build 

 the city's first tobacco warehouse and its first 

 redrying plant, and established the Bank of Mul- 

 lins. He was also one of the organizers of the 

 Merchants and Farmers Bank of Marion— the first 

 bank to make direct loans to farmers in the Pee 

 Dee, to finance raising crops and supplanting, 

 to some extent, the crop lien system and easing 

 the tobacco farmers' financial problems. 



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Another pioneer in the development of South 

 Carolina's flue-cured crop was Frank M. Rogers. 

 Rogers cultivated a small tobacco crop in 1882 

 around Florence. By 1884 he had 20 acres and in 

 1885 he recorded a profit of $9,000. Soon, tobacco 

 flourished as many of his neighbors followed suit 

 and began planting tobacco all over the Pee Dee. 



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