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Darlington
South Carolina, United States
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Darlington, city, seat of Darlington county, northeastern South Carolina, U.S. Settled in the 1780s, the city and the county (formed 1785) were both named for Darlington, England. Its basic agricultural economy (tobacco, cotton, livestock, soybeans, and timber) is supplemented by manufacturing (building materials, electronics, paper products, and steel). The city has a large automobile auction market and is the home of Darlington Raceway (opened 1950), noted for stock-car racing events including the TranSouth Financial 400 in March and the Mountain Dew Southern 500 in September, on Labor Day. A stock-car museum was opened in 1965. Inc. town, 1835; city, 1950. Pop. (2000) 6,720; (2010) 6,289.
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