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Anderson County, South Carolina

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27historic places

—earliest paper

1826formed

203,718pop. 2020

128cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 27 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Anderson, Pendleton, Belton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for South Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Anderson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 27 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

27 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Anderson College Historic District	Anderson	District	1998
Anderson Downtown Historic District	Anderson	District	1979
Anderson Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	Anderson	District	2018
Anderson Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Anderson	District	1987
Anderson Historic District	Anderson	District	1971
Ashtabula	Pendleton	Building	1972
Belton Depot	Belton	Building	1979
Belton Standpipe	Belton	Structure	1987
Boone-Douthit House	Pendleton	Building	1997
Caldwell-Johnson-Morris Cottage	Anderson	Building	1971
Chamberlain-Kay House	Belton	Building	1980
Denver Downs Farmstead	Anderson	Building	2007
Faith Cabin Library at Anderson County Training School	Pendleton	Building	2012
Ginn, Robert J. and Lula, House	Anderson	Building	2019
Kennedy Street School	Anderson	Building	2007
North Anderson Historic District	Anderson	District	2008
Orr, Dr. Samuel Marshall, House	Anderson	Building	1973
Pelzer Community Building	Pelzer	Building	2025
Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District	Pelzer	District	2017
Pelzer Presbyterian Church	Pelzer	Building	1993
Pendleton Cotton Mill	Pendleton	District	2018
Pendleton Historic District	Pendleton	District	1970
Ramer, Ralph John, House	Anderson	Building	1992
Shirley, Obediah, House	Honea Path	Building	1999
United States Post Office and Court House	Anderson	Building	2017
Woodburn	Pendleton	Building	1971
Woodson Farmstead	Greenville	Building	1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Anderson was formed in 1826 (1826-12-20) from part of PENDLETON, with same boundaries as Anderson District.

ANDERSON created from part of PENDLETON (extinct), with same boundaries as Anderson District; PENDLETON eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Anderson County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
17,169	18,493	22,873	33,612	55,728	76,349	88,712	90,664	98,478	133,235	165,740	203,718

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

128 cemeteries and 5 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 128 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anderson Family Cemetery	None	None
Anderson First Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Anderson First Presbyterian Graveyard	34.50416	-82.65426
Anderson Memorial Gardens	34.50463	-82.70726
Anderson Presbyterian Number Two Cemetery	None	None
Anderson Village Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Andersonville Baptist Church Graveyard	34.48409	-82.80424
Armstrong Family Cemetery	None	None
Asaville Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Asbury Methodist Cemetery	None	None
Barker's Creek Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Barkley Family Cemetery	None	None
Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery	34.63972	-82.55115
Belton Cemetery	34.52082	-82.50081
Bennett Family Cemetery	None	None
Bethany Baptist Cemetery	34.42788	-82.50818
Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery	34.42971	-82.50783
Bethany Methodist Cemetery	None	None
Bethel Church of God Abrahamic Graveyard	34.6702	-82.5154
Bethel Methodist Cemetery	34.51416	-82.65846
Bethesda Baptist Cemetery	34.7765	-82.48874
Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery	None	None
Bethlehem Methodist Cemetery	None	None
Bethlehem Methodist Cemetery	None	None
Bethlehem United Methodist Church Graveyard	34.42665	-82.60038
Beulah Cemetery	34.6841	-82.56189
Beulah Methodist Cemetery	34.684	-82.56179
Big Creek Baptist Cemetery	34.60676	-82.45676
Blassingame Family Cemetery	None	None
Breazeale Family Cemetery	None	None
Broadmouth Baptist Church Graveyard	34.45982	-82.35151
Brown Family Cemetery	None	None
Buchannan Family Cemetery	None	None
Burris Family Cemetery	None	None
Burriss-Eskew Family Cemetery (historical)	None	None
Byrum - LeBoon Family Cemetery	34.49871	-82.67346
Calvary Baptist Church Graveyard	34.70324	-82.67539
Campbell Family Cemetery	None	None
Carswell Baptist Cemetery	34.34732	-82.60124
Casey Family Cemetery	None	None
Cedar Grove Baptist Church Graveyard	34.57906	-82.49664
Cedar Grove Baptist Church Graveyard	34.46458	-82.47072
Cedar Grove Methodist Cemetery	34.5476	-82.84847
Chestnut Ridge Memorial Cemetery	None	None
Childress Family Cemetery	None	None
City of Belton Cemetery	34.52066	-82.49929
Clardy Family Cemetery	None	None
Clinkscales Family Cemetery	None	None
Concord Baptist Church Graveyard	34.5449	-82.65061
Concord Presbyterian Cemetery	None	None
Cooley Family Cemetery	None	None
Cooper Veterans Cemetery	34.48222	-82.57715
Corinth Baptist Number Two Cemetery	34.76234	-82.59223
Corinth Number Two Baptist Church Graveyard	34.67694	-82.71228
Cox Family Cemetery	None	None
Cox Family Cemetery Number Two	None	None
Cross Roads Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Cross Roads Methodist Cemetery	34.29593	-82.68041
Crosstie Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Dorchester Baptist Church Graveyard	34.54539	-82.52037
East View Cemetery	34.45288	-82.37762
Ebenezer United Methodist Church Graveyard	34.39938	-82.55852
Elizabeth Cox Grave	None	None
Eureka Baptist Church Graveyard	34.51233	-82.59671
Evergreen Baptist Church Cemetery	34.61517	-82.61971
Fairview United Methodist Church Graveyard	34.7715	-82.58235
First Baptist Church of Pendleton Graveyard	34.6473	-82.78193
Forest Lawn Memorial Park	34.53926	-82.58117
Friendship Baptist Church Graveyard	34.49776	-82.38353
Friendship Baptist Church Graveyard	34.6665	-82.58596
Garden of Memories Cemetery	34.47785	-82.44567
Goodhope Cemetery	34.31871	-82.69485
Gray Cemetery	34.47454	-82.74763
Greer Family Cemetery	34.4896	-82.46475
Guthrie Grove Church of God Cemetery	34.67304	-82.51355
Hall - Cromer Cemetery	34.34705	-82.62263
Harrison Cemetery	34.67261	-82.4729
Hebrion Cemetery	34.35593	-82.64235
Hodges Cemetery	34.4001	-82.7268
Honea Path Presbyterian Church Graveyard	34.44444	-82.3916

Historical populated places — 5 of 5

Name	Lat	Lon
Andersonville	34.44733	-82.85514
Price	34.47594	-82.86681
Sadler	34.44316	-82.83264
Storeville	34.359	-82.58041
Varennes	34.43761	-82.60958

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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