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Greenwood County, South Carolina

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
24historic places
—earliest paper
1897formed
69,351pop. 2020
30cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 24 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Greenwood, Ninety Six, Donalds.

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 Greenwood titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 24 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

24 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Barratt HouseGreenwoodBuilding1985
Brooks, J. Wesley, HouseGreenwoodBuilding1973
Edgewood SchoolNinety SixBuilding2024
Greenville Presbyterian ChurchDonaldsBuilding1998
Greenwood Mill Village Historic DistrictGreenwoodDistrict2026
Kinard HouseNinety SixBuilding2007
Lander College Old Main BuildingGreenwoodBuilding1984
Magnolia CemeteryGreenwoodSite2004
Moore-Kinard HouseNinety SixBuilding1983
Mt. Pisgah A.M.E. ChurchGreenwoodBuilding1979
Ninety Six National Historic Site NHLNinety SixDistrict1969
Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference SchoolCokesburyDistrict1970
Old Greenwood CemeteryGreenwoodSite2002
Old Greenwood High SchoolGreenwoodBuilding1985
Self, James C., HouseGreenwoodBuilding1987
Southern Railway DepotNinety SixBuilding2011
State TheatreGreenwoodBuilding2024
Stony PointGreenwoodBuilding1975
SunnysideGreenwoodBuilding1978
Tabernacle CemeteryGreenwoodSite2008
The OaksCoronacaBuilding2010
Trapp and Chandler Pottery Site (38GN169)KirkseySite1986
Vance-Maxwell HouseGreenwoodBuilding1982
Ware Shoals InnWare ShoalsBuilding2007

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Greenwood was formed in 1897 (1897-03-02) from Abbeville, Edgefield.

GREENWOOD created from ABBEVILLE and EDGEFIELD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Greenwood County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

70k49k28k19001920196020002020
19001920194019501960198020002020
28,34335,79140,08341,62844,34657,84766,27169,351

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Ninety Six National Historic SitePark unit9.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

30 cemeteries and 10 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 30 of 30 listed
NameLatLon
Andrews Cemeteries34.30206-82.164
Bethlehem Cemetery34.25399-82.07937
Cedar Grove Cemetery34.05571-82.24443
Crossroads Cemetery34.12595-82.2354
Dunns Creek Cemetery34.37539-82.28067
Edgewood Cemetery34.20759-82.16312
Enoree Zion Church Cemetery34.13372-81.99775
Fairview Cemetery34.20502-82.14368
Friendship Cemetery34.0404-81.95872
Greenwood Memorial Gardens34.26178-82.22206
Hillcrest Cemetery34.18937-82.17847
Kinard Chapel Cemetery34.1182-82.02631
Lyon - Lipford Cemetery34.08894-82.27573
Magnolia Cemetery34.19107-82.1543
Mathews Cemetery34.16234-82.15151
Mayson Graves34.14535-82.02432
Morris Hill Cemetery34.24456-82.22234
Mount Carmel Church Cemetery34.19552-81.97981
Mount Pleasant Cemetery34.03317-82.26095
Mount Sinai Cemetery34.02261-82.27317
Mount Tabor Church Cemetery34.19016-82.11995
Old Mount Zion Church Cemetery34.09836-82.04154
Old Pine Grove Cemetery34.09678-82.13456
Old Tabernacle Cemetery34.26678-82.18401
Penn Cemetery33.99151-82.06595
Pleasant Rock Church Cemetery34.14722-81.96598
Rock Presbyterian Church Graveyard34.22997-82.11386
Rushville Cemetery34.00428-82.17623
Save All Cemetery34.1779-82.1404
Springfield Baptist Church Graveyard34.22669-82.12115
Historical populated places — 10 of 10
NameLatLon
Aix34.07929-82.17068
Algary34.36567-82.27901
Bullock34.16012-82.20596
Cambridge34.1454-82.02456
Cothran34.22373-82.20207
Dominicks34.09513-82.06901
Jones34.37929-82.22595
Laco34.1104-82.14707
Lorenzo34.14929-82.23623
Rosa34.02374-82.0854

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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