Editing McColl, South Carolina (section)

==History==
This area is within territory occupied by the [[Pee Dee people|Pee Dee]] of the [[South Appalachian Mississippian culture]] for several hundred years. Among their earthwork monuments is [[Town Creek Indian Mound]], an important regional ceremonial site that was occupied from about 1150 to 1400 CE in [[Montgomery County, North Carolina]], before they abandoned it for unknown reasons.<ref name=CUNNINGHAM>{{cite web|title=Biological and Cultural Stress in a South Appalachian Mississippian Settlement: Town Creek Indian Mound, Mt. Gilead, NC|author=Cunningham, Sarah L|publisher=North Carolina State University|date=2010| accessdate=2012-04-12|url=http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/bitstream/1840.16/6271/1/etd.pdf}}</ref> It was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1966, the only American Indian site so honored in the state.<ref name="tcim">{{cite web|url=http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/town.htm |title=Town Creek Indian Mound: An American Indian Legacy |accessdate=2007-07-31 |publisher=North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives & History |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810055114/http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/town/Town.htm |archivedate=2007-08-10 }}</ref> In 2017, the Pee Dee Indian Tribe officially began work on the Pee Dee Tribal Mounds located on tribal land in McColl.<ref name="sciway" />

Some of this area was developed for the cultivation of short-staple cotton in the antebellum era after the invention of the cotton gin. The area was also a center of lumbering and turpentine production in the early 20th century.

The town was named for D. D. McColl, a businessman.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=193}}</ref>

In 2024 the town's mayor, George Garner II, died when his car collided with a truck while being pursued by a Marlboro Country police cruiser days after the entire McColl police force resigned. According to the coroner, the pursuit was "not related to any laws being broken, but rather an effort to protect the well being of Mr. Garner."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moore |first=Stephanie |date=2024-11-27 |title=Mayor of South Carolina city dies days after entire police force resigns |url=https://www.wyff4.com/article/south-carolina-mayor-dies-head-on-crash/63033238 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=WYFF |language=en}}</ref>