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Newberry, South Carolina Newberry Opera House Newberry Opera House Location of Newberry, South Carolina Location of Newberry, South Carolina County Newberry Newberry is a town/city in Newberry County, South Carolina, in the Piedmont 43 miles (69 km) northwest of Columbia.
It is the governmental center of county of Newberry County; at one time it was called Newberry Courthouse.
Newberry became a town/city in 1976, but did not report the change to the Enumeration Bureau for more than twenty-five years. As a result, the town/city was listed as a town in the 2000 census.
It is the home of Newberry College, a private liberal-arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Newberry is positioned at 34 16 40 N 81 37 00 WCoordinates: 34 16 40 N 81 37 00 W (34.277655, -81.616560). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town had a total region of 6.6 square miles (17.0 km ), all of it land.
Newberry Opera House Newberry Court House Newberry College (Lutheran) Newberry County Historical Museum Newberry County was formed from the Ninety-Six District in 1785.
Because of its central location, the town of Newberry was chosen in 1789 as the governmental center of county for Newberry County, which was part of an extensive region of cotton plantations.
By the coming of the barns in 1851, Newberry had turn into a grow trade center.
During the American Civil War, Newberry College was used as a hospital for Confederate and later Union troops.
The historic Newberry Court House wasn't burned by William Tecumseh Sherman's troops as he swept through the South.
The Boundary Street-Newberry Cotton Mills Historic District, Burton House, Caldwell Street Historic District, Coateswood, College Street Historic District, Cousins House, Hannah Rosenwald School, Harrington Street Historic District, Francis B.
Higgins House, Main Street Historic District, George Mower House, Newberry College Historic District, Newberry County Memorial Hospital, Newberry Historic District, Newberry Opera House, Oakland Mill, Old Courthouse, Ike Reighley House, Summer Brothers Stores, Timberhouse, Vincent Street Historic District, Wells Japanese Garden, Osborne Wells House, and West Boundary Street Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Henry Mc - Neal Turner, born in Newberry, African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) organizer in Georgia before the Civil War, Georgia state legislator and bishop in the state.
Population Estimates Boundary Changes, United States Enumeration Bureau, 2007-07-01.
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