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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU8F_national-wwii-memorial_Newberry-SC.html
Dedicated May 27, 2002 to the menand women who served our nation. Theywere truly the Greatest Generation. In this space lies some of the soiland water of the major battlefieldsfought on by our brave men and women.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS9E_henry-mcneal-turner_Newberry-SC.html
Historical Bicentennial Marker In Memory OfHenry McNeal Turner 1834 - 1915 Birthplace: Newberry, South Carolina - Boyhood Home: Abbeville, South CarolinaMissionary Pioneer to South Africa, Liberation Theologian Social and Political Activist, First…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS9A_hope-rosenwald-school_Pomaria-SC.html
(Front text) This school, built in 1925-26 at a cost of $2,900, was one of more than 500 rural African-American schools in S.C. funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation between 1917 and 1932. The original two-acre lot for the school was d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIE6_peak_Peak-SC.html
This town, founded in 1853 as Peak's Station on the Greenville & Columbia Railroad, was named for railroad superintendent H.T. Peake. In 1865 Federal troops destroyed the tracks here and over the Broad River. Peak, incorporated in 1880, prospered …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIE4_folk-holloway-house_Pomaria-SC.html
This house, built ca. 1820 for John Adam Folk (1799-1855) is an excellent example of a 19th-century two-story farmhouse. Folk, a farmer and merchant, was also postmaster at Tanner's Hill (now Pomaria) 1829-40. Later the home of Folk's daughter Mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDQ4_ebenezer-methodist-church_Whitmire-SC.html
On this site stood the Ebenezer Methodist Church. The structure built in 1848 and two earlier structures which stood in this vicinity served the congregation of Maybinton Township. Founded in 1784 the first year of organized Methodism in America, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCXR_old-court-house_Newberry-SC.html
Designed by Jacob Graves and builtby John Damron, Newberry County'sfourth court house was erected in1852. It replaced an earlier buildingon this site which was probably designedby Robert Mills. The Old Court House is now used as a community hall. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCXL_the-opera-house_Newberry-SC.html
This building was erected by theTown of Newberry, and dedicatedin February of 1882. An outstandingexample of Victorian civic architectureof eclectic design, it was placed onthe National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Now housing city offices…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCXJ_newberry-cotton-mills_Newberry-SC.html
Newberry Cotton Mills, incorporated in 1882, began operation in 1885. Themill was designed by prominenttextile mill architects Lockwood,Greene, & Co. and was one of thefirst cotton mills in the United Statesoperated by steam power. Z.F. Wright,who…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCR8_rev-joachim-bulow_Pomaria-SC.html
In Memory of the Rev. Joachim Bulow.Organizer and first Pastor of St. Pauls Lutheran Church about 1761
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