Newberry County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 37,719. Its county seat is Newberry. The name is of unknown origin, although one theory suggests that it was named by Quaker settlers in honor of their home of Newberry, a suburb of London in the United Kingdom. Newberry County comprises the Newberry, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Newberry is a city in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States, in the Piedmont 43 miles northwest of Columbia. The charter was adopted in 1894. The population was 10,277 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Newberry County; at one time it was called Newberry Courthouse.
Pomaria is a town in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 127 at the 2020 census.
The Hope Rosenwald School, also known as Hope School, is a former school at 1971 Hope Station Road near Pomaria, South Carolina. As a Rosenwald School, it served rural African-American children in the early 20th century.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newberry County, South Carolina.
St. John Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran congregation in Pomaria, South Carolina affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Moon-Dominick House, also known as the Old Tin House, is a historic home located near Chappells, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1820, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, frame I-house with Federal style details. It has a high brick basement, gable roof, and exterior end chimneys.
Osborne Wells House is a historic home located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a brick and stucco residence consisting of a piano nobile over a raised basement. It features a projecting raised porch supported by four stuccoed brick piers. It was built by Osborne Wells, a prominent 19th century Newberry builder, planter, and brick manufacturer.
Timberhouse is a historic plantation house located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1858 by Jacob Kibler, and is a two-story, weatherboarded Greek Revival style dwelling. It features double-tiered full-width porches supported by six square wood pillars and exterior end chimneys.
Summer Brothers Stores is a historic commercial building located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built in 1898, and is a row of four one-story brick commercial buildings. The front façade features a repetitive arched arcade with small circular ventilator grilles above.
Boundary Street–Newberry Cotton Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 107 buildings, 1 site, and 1 structure in Newberry. The district includes classical and vernacular inspired upper and middle-class houses dating from 1857 to 1898. It also includes a relatively intact late-19th century mill village that surrounded the Newberry Cotton Mill (demolished).
Harrington Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings in Newberry. The district includes residences dating from about 1870 to 1930. They include Victorian raised cottages, a Neoclassical style mansion, and shotgun and bungalow vernacular styles.
Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings in an upper-class neighborhood of Newberry. The district includes residences dating from about 1840 to 1950. They include notable examples of the Italianate, Greek Revival, Neoclassical styles. Also located in the district is the St. Luke's Episcopal Church and the Newberry Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Vincent Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings in a compact residential neighborhood of Newberry. The residences date from the late-19th and early-20th century and include notable examples of the Greek Revival and Late Victorian styles.
West Boundary Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses six contributing buildings and one contributing site in a residential neighborhood of Newberry. The four residences date between 1840 and 1935, and include examples of the Greek Revival, a Victorian raised cottage, and Bungalow styles.
Hatton House, also known as the 1892 House, is a historic home located at Pomaria, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1892, and is a two-story, frame gabled-ell cottage in a vernacular late-Italianate style. It features ornate brackets and other exterior decorative trim.
Pomaria, also known as the Summer–Huggins House, is a historic plantation house located near Pomaria, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, frame dwelling on a raised basement with Greek Revival and Federal style design elements. It features a two-story, projecting pedimented portico. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse, a board and batten privy, and a Carpenter Gothic post office, which served as the first post office in the Dutch Fork. Pomaria Nurseries were begun on the plantation in 1840.
The Jacob Bedenbaugh House is an historic home located near Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, frame I-house. It was the home of Jacob and Sarah Bedenbaugh, an interracial couple remained together for 42 years during the late-19h and early-20th centuries.
Oakland Mill, also known as Oakland-Kendall Mill, is a historic textile mill complex located at Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina in the United States. The original section was built between 1910 and 1912, with building expansion campaigns conducted from 1949 to 1950 and from 1950 to 1951. The original section reflects Romanesque Revival style design influences. The complex includes the main mill building, a one-story brick office building, a two-story brick boiler house with a brick smokestack and auxiliary building, two masonry and concrete warehouses, two wood-frame auxiliary storage buildings, a railroad spur, two water towers, and a reservoir. The mill remained in operation until the 2000s.
Hannah Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school located near Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina. It was built in 1924–1925, and is a one-story, frame, three-teacher type school. The school included three classrooms, three cloakrooms, an industrial room, and an entry hall. The school was affiliated with the Hannah A.M.E. Church and closed in the 1960s.
