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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LM_bush-river-quaker-meeting_Newberry-SC.html
This old cemetery marks the site of the Bush River Meeting House. Settled by Quakers in the 1760s, it was a monthly meeting (1770-1822) and a quarterly meeting with jurisdiction over all meetings in South Carolina and Georgia from 1791 to 1808. Op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LJ_new-chapel-church_Newberry-SC.html
Once housing a school for area students, this United Methodist church was located closer to the Saluda River around 1820. The congregation moved to this site after Isaac Herbert, a member of the S.C. House of Representatives (1844-45), donated the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LF_the-rock-house_Newberry-SC.html
On December 7, 1756, the Council of the Colony recorded a petition of Jacob Hoffman for 200 acres of bounty land. He was granted this acreage on Palmetto Branch in 1758. The building on this tract, which has long been known as "The Rock House," ex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8KW_st-johns-church_Pomaria-SC.html
This Lutheran church stands on a royal grant of 100 acres made in 1763 to John Adam Epting and Peter Dickert, elders of the Dissenting congregation on Crim's Creek. The origins of St. John's date as early as 1754, when the Reverend John Gasser set…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8KS_lutheran-theological-southern-seminary_Pomaria-SC.html
Here in 1830, in the house of Colonel John Eigleberger, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and Adjacent States opened a seminary which grew into the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary now located in Columbia, S.C.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8KQ_pomaria_Pomaria-SC.html
Originally named Countsville, this post office was established in 1823. In 1840, it was renamed Pomaria, probably for William Summer's nearby Pomaria Nursery. By 1851 the Columbia and Newberry Railroad had completed a line through here, and six ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8JN_mount-bethel-academy_Newberry-SC.html
[Front]Located about one mile northeast on land conveyed by Edward Finch, this school, the first Methodist educational venture in the state, was established by Bishop Francis Asbury and opened by him, 1795. A number of Mt. Bethel students became t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6GR_bethlehem-lutheran-church_Pomaria-SC.html
[Marker Front]:This church, with its origins in services held in the 1780's at nearby Wicker's Camp Ground, was formally organized in 1816 with Rev. Godfrey Dreher as its first pastor. A log meeting house was built on this site soon afterwards. In…