Month: May 2020
Author: chris Published Date: May 10, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Providence Presbyterian Church was organized and built in 1842 as the results of the merger of the Providence and New Harmony Presbyterian church that were both in the Lowndesville area. The church was remodeled in 1886 adding the campanile and removing the slave gallery
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Author: chris Published Date: May 9, 2020 Leave a Comment on This molded concrete building was built in 1920. It later became the home of the First National Bank of Orangeburg. FNB of Orangeburg was established in 1933 and later became known as South Carolina Bank and Trust and then South State Bank
Author: chris Published Date: May 4, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Hope Rosenwald School was built in ca. 1926. The school was named for James Haskell Hope, the South Carolina Superintendent of Education from 1922 to 1945, because he sold more than 2 acres of his land for the “gift-like’ price of $5 to the Trustees of School District No. 60 for Newberry County, South Carolina in 1925
Author: chris Published Date: May 3, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Mt. Joy Baptist Church in Kelton (Jonesville) was organized in 1876. This building was erected in 1924. This church was mainly organized through the ministerial labors of Elder T. J. Taylor and constituted November 30th, 1876
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