Newberry County
29 places on the trail: 29 highway markers.
Colonial (pre-contact to 1763)
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 36-18Bethlehem Lutheran ChurchThis church, with its origins in services held in the 1780s at nearby Wicker's Camp Ground, was formally organized in 18...
- 36-06Bush River ChurchConstituted by Daniel Marshall and Philip Mulkey in June, 1771, Bush River Church is one of the oldest Baptist churches ...
- 36-02Bush River Quaker MeetingThis old cemetery marks the site of the Bush River Meeting House. Settled by Quakers in the 1760's, it was a Monthly Mee...
- 36-07St. John's ChurchThis Lutheran church stands on a royal grant of 100 acres made in 1763 to John Adam Epting and Peter Dickert, elders of ...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 36-11Mount Bethel AcademyLocated about one mile northeast on land conveyed by Edward Finch, this school, the first Methodist educational venture ...
- 36-24NewberryNewberry County was one of six counties created from Ninety Six District in 1785. In 1789 John Coate donated two acres f...
- 36-22Newberry Village CemeteryThis cemetery dates from 1809, 23 years before Newberry’s incorporation in 1832. George McCreless donated an acre here f...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 30-16Belfast PlantationThis Federal plantation house was built between 1786 and 1815 for John Simpson (1751-1815), merchant and planter. Simpso...
- 36-28Colony Lutheran ChurchMembers of St. Luke’s and St. Paul’s Lutheran churches in Prosperity and Pomaria founded this congregation in 1845 as a ...
- 36-17Folk-Holloway HouseThis house, built ca. 1820 for John Adam Folk (1799-1855) is an excellent example of a 19th-century two-story farmhouse....
- 36-27Frederick Nance House-Oak GroveThe Frederick Nance House-Oak Grove, is an early nineteenth-century Classical Revival home, distinct from other early ar...
- 36-01Lutheran Theological Southern SeminaryHere in 1830, in the house of Colonel John Eigleberger, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and Adjacent St...
- 36-12New Chapel ChurchOnce housing a school for area students, this United Methodist church was located closer to the Saluda River around 1820...
- 36-03Newberry CollegeThis fully accredited Lutheran controlled college was chartered by the General Assembly of South Carolina on December 20...
- 36-04Old Court HouseDesigned by Jacob Graves and built by John Damron, Newberry County's fourth court house was erected in 1852. It replaced...
- 36-15PeakThis town, founded in 1853 as Peak's Station on the Greenville & Columbia Railroad, was named for railroad superintenden...
- 36-10PomariaOriginally named Countsville, this post office was established in 1823. In 1840, it was renamed Pomaria, probably for Wi...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
New South (1877-1913)
- 36-16Mollohon Mill and VillageThis mill was built and operated by the Mollohon Manufacturing Co. from 1901 to 1926, when it was sold to the Kendall Co...
- 36-09Newberry College Historic DistrictListed in the National Register of Historic Places are Smeltzer Hall (1877-78), dormitory for women and campus reception...
- 36-14Newberry Cotton MillsNewberry Cotton Mills, incorporated in 1882, began operation in 1885. The mill was designed by prominent textile mill ar...
- 36-23Oakland MillThis textile mill, which began operation in 1912, was the third mill built in Newberry, after Newberry Cotton Mills (188...
- 36-05The Opera HouseThis building was erected by the Town of Newberry, and dedicated in February of 1882. An outstanding example of Victoria...