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Bennettsville is a city located in the U.S. state of South Carolina upon the Great Pee Dee River. As the county chair of Marlboro County, Bennettsville is noted for its historic homes and buildings from the 19th and ahead of time 20th centuries—including the Bennettsville Historic District which is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the 2010 census, Bennettsville has a population of 9,069.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16 km), of which 5.6 square miles (15 km²) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km) (10.13%) is water.

The city of Bennettsville was founded in 1819 upon the Great Pee Dee River and named after Thomas Bennett, Jr., then superintendent of South Carolina. The Place was developed for short-staple cotton cultivation, dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Many were brought to the upland area from the Lowcountry, carrying their Gullah culture later them. Others were transported from the Upper South by slave traders. This shift to cotton crop growing in the uplands was based upon the progress of the cotton gin, which made short-staple cotton, cotton once relatively hasty fibers, profitable. The advent of the gin in direction led to evolve of large cotton plantations throughout the Deep South.