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Lexington County, South Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
63historic places
—earliest paper
1785formed
293,991pop. 2020
66cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 63 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Lexington, Batesburg, Leesville.

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 Lexington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

45 of 63 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

63 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
"Congarees" SiteCayceSite1974
Ballentine-Shealy HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Bank of Western CarolinaLexingtonBuilding1983
Barr, D. D. D., HouseBatesburgBuilding1983
Batesburg Commercial Historic DistrictBatesburgDistrict1982
Berly, W. Q. M., HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Berly, William, HouseLexingtonBuilding1977
Boozer, Lemuel, HouseLexingtonBuilding1977
Bouknight, Simon, HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Cartledge HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Cayce, William J., HouseCayceBuilding1975
Cedar Grove Lutheran ChurchLeesvilleBuilding2010
Chapin Commercial Historic DistrictChapinDistrict2019
Church Street Historic DistrictLeesvilleDistrict1982
Colonial-Hites CompanyWest ColumbiaBuilding2018
Corley, C. E., HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Dreher, Jacob Wingard, HouseIrmoBuilding1983
Edwards, Broadus, HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Fox HouseLexingtonBuilding1970
Gervais Street BridgeWest ColumbiaStructure1980
Griffith, David Jefferson, HouseGilbertBuilding1983
Guignard Brick WorksCayceDistrict1995
Gunter-Summers HouseLexingtonBuilding1987
Hampton Hendrix OfficeLeesvilleBuilding1982
Harman, James, BuildingLexingtonBuilding1983
Hartley HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Hazelius, Ernest L., HouseLexingtonBuilding1973
Hendrix, John Solomon, HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Herbert, Thomas Galbraith, HouseLeesvilleBuilding1982
Hite, John Jacob, FarmLexingtonBuilding1983
Holman, J. B., HouseLeesvilleBuilding1982
Home National BankLexingtonBuilding1983
Jones, A. C., HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Leesville College Historic DistrictLeesvilleDistrict1982
Lexington County CourthouseLexingtonBuilding2014
Lybrand, Henry, FarmLexingtonBuilding1983
Manning Archeological SiteCayceSite1978
Meetze, Maj. Henry A., HouseLexingtonBuilding1979
Mitchell, Crowell, HouseLeesvilleBuilding1982
Mitchell, McKendree, HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Mitchell-Shealy HouseLeesvilleBuilding1982
Mount Hebron Temperance HallWest ColumbiaBuilding1980
Music Hall Evangelical Lutheran ChurchGilbertBuilding1983
New Brookland Historic DistrictWest ColumbiaDistrict1978
Old Batesburg Grade SchoolBatesburgBuilding1983
Old Batesburg-Leesville High SchoolLexingtonBuilding1982
Oliver, Peter M. and Alice, HouseSwanseaBuilding2023
Professional BuildingCayceBuilding2025
Rauch, Charlton, HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Rawl, David, HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Rawl, John Jacob, HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Rawl-Couch HouseBatesburgBuilding1982
Robinson-Hiller HouseChapinBuilding1998
SAM SiteCayceSite1978
Saluda Factory Historic DistrictWest ColumbiaDistrict1973
Simmons-Harth HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Southern Railway DepotBatesburgBuilding1983
St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchIrmoBuilding2023
Stewart, James, HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Still HopesCayceBuilding1983
Taylor SiteCayceSite1974
Wessinger, Vastine, HouseLexingtonBuilding1983
Yarborough, Rev. Frank, HouseLeesvilleBuilding1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lexington was formed in 1785 (1785-03-12) from unknown / original county.

LEXINGTON created in Orangeburg District (overlapped part of NEWBERRY; disputed jurisdiction settled in LEXINGTON's favor on 29 Feb 1788).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lexington County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

294k150k6,6411810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
6,6418,08312,11115,57918,56427,26435,67635,99444,27960,726140,353216,014293,991

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

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

Cemeteries — 66 of 66 listed
NameLatLon
Antioch Cemetery33.76265-81.16343
Bachman Cemetery33.75348-81.15759
Banks Cemetery33.89625-81.50427
Banks Cemetery33.96541-81.5026
Barr Cemetery33.94152-81.52621
Baughman Cemetery33.88848-81.06731
Bethany Cemetery33.87903-81.21982
Bethel Cemetery33.83403-81.20093
Bethlehem Cemetery33.8632-81.40871
Black Creek Cemetery33.78903-81.33926
Boatwright Cemetery33.86292-81.47065
Boiling Springs Cemetery33.86959-81.31538
Butler Cemetery33.94819-81.52677
Celestial Memorial Gardens33.9757-81.12176
Davis Cemetery33.84208-81.50482
Derrick Cemetery33.98291-81.48121
Eargle Cemetery34.13931-81.34621
Emmanuel Cemetery33.93376-81.14565
Factory Cemetery34.00848-81.08592
Fullmer Cemetery33.97847-81.51788
George Gross Cemetery33.98792-81.24621
Gunter Cemetery33.88319-81.55899
Hallman Cemetery33.85155-81.51618
Hallman Cemetery33.85208-81.52565
Hartley Cemetery33.85486-81.5351
Hendrix Cemetery34.03153-81.3951
Hooker Cemetery33.67292-81.20454
Jeffcoat - Chaney Cemetery33.72181-81.17787
Larkin Glen Cemetery33.87153-81.14176
Leaird Cemetery33.71431-81.17204
Lightner - Christian Cemetery33.98708-81.44204
Lower Pine Grove Cemetery34.06734-81.14528
Mount Herman Cemetery33.6932-81.2676
Mount Hermon Cemetery33.9957-81.12009
Neese Cemetery33.7457-81.12759
Oak Grove Cemetery33.81431-81.36871
Oak Grove Cemetery33.7707-80.97231
Old Lexington Cemetery34.05152-81.45593
Old Salem Cemetery33.99069-81.45371
Olive Branch Cemetery33.90042-81.54448
Pine Grove Cemetery33.76236-81.38815
Pisgah Cemetery33.92598-81.07954
Pisgah Cemetery33.96125-81.29649
Quattlebaum Cemetery33.8518-81.53121
Reese Cemetery33.92181-81.05759
Reichter - Richter Cemetery33.78459-81.12843
Ridge Crest Cemetery33.91859-81.53653
Risinger Cemetery33.93403-81.50343
Saint Andrews Cemetery34.04542-81.13565
Saint James Cemetery33.93319-81.52621
Saint James Cemetery33.92264-81.4226
Saint Johns Cemetery33.78986-81.34065
Saint Johns Cemetery33.89209-81.0287
Saint Pauls Cemetery33.88567-81.03135
Saint Pauls Cemetery33.88087-81.05784
Saint Thomas Cemetery34.10347-81.33815
Sawyer Cemetery33.87708-81.55899
Scofield Cemetery33.75876-81.26593
Sease Cemetery34.01236-81.40038
Shealy Cemetery33.86875-81.53816
Shiloh Cemetery33.97708-81.37565
Sightler Cemetery33.90431-81.07037
Southland Memorial Gardens33.93153-81.13787
Upper Pine Grove Cemetery34.08153-81.17204
Warren Cemetery33.93236-81.53149
Zion Cemetery34.02098-81.15343
Historical populated places — 5 of 5
NameLatLon
Althea33.81237-81.46371
Congaree33.88154-81.23538
Hall33.83209-81.48094
Shuler33.88015-81.16065
Styx33.91349-81.12343

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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