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McCormick County, South Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
23historic places
—earliest paper
1916formed
9,526pop. 2020
36cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 23 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near McCormick, Mount Carmel, Willington.

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 McCormick titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

16 of 23 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

23 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bracknell's Store ComplexPlum BranchBuilding2026
Calhoun MillMount CarmelBuilding1980
Calhoun-Gibert HouseWillingtonBuilding1996
De La Howe, John, State SchoolMcCormickBuilding1970
Dorn Gold MineMcCormickSite1985
Dorn's Flour and Grist MillMcCormickBuilding1976
Dorn, Joseph Jennings, HouseMcCormickBuilding1985
Eden HallMcCormickBuilding1980
Farmer's BankMcCormickBuilding1985
Gibert, John Albert, M.D., HouseMcCormickBuilding1993
Guillebeau HouseWillingtonBuilding1973
Henderson, Otway, HouseMcCormickBuilding1985
Hopewell Rosenwald SchoolClarks HillBuilding2010
Hotel KeturahMcCormickBuilding1985
Long Cane Massacre SiteTroySite1983
Lower Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian ChurchTroyBuilding1999
McCormick County CourthouseMcCormickBuilding1985
McCormick County Office BuildingMcCormickBuilding2024
McCormick Train StationMcCormickBuilding1985
Mount Carmel Historic DistrictMount CarmelDistrict1982
Price's MillParksvilleBuilding1972
Sturkey, M. L. B., HouseMcCormickBuilding1985
SylvaniaBradleyBuilding1977

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mccormick was formed in 1916 (1916-04-12) from Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood.

MCCORMICK created from ABBEVILLE, EDGEFIELD, and GREENWOOD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

McCormick County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

16k12k7,79719201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
16,44410,3679,5778,6297,7979,9589,526

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

36 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 36 of 36 listed
NameLatLon
Ashbury Cemetery33.6504-82.15845
Badwell Cemetery33.92651-82.37818
Bethany Cemetery33.92373-82.18679
Bethelehem Cemetery33.66901-82.17289
Bordeaux Cemetery33.92595-82.42151
Boyd Cemetery34.04483-82.52624
Brough Cemetery34.02456-82.53707
Buffalo Cemetery33.949-82.37262
Canfield Cemetery33.88345-82.24484
Chapel Cemetery34.039-82.35679
Chisholm Cemetery34.02845-82.36874
De La Howe Tomb33.939-82.41207
Hopewell Cemetery33.60929-82.11873
Hopewell Cemetery33.62457-82.13789
Hopewell Cemetery34.03928-82.41846
Indian Massacre Grave33.99567-82.33957
Jones Cemetery33.69874-82.19901
Lower Long Cane Cemetery34.01595-82.34901
McCormick City Cemetery33.90821-82.29367
McKie Cemetery33.62346-82.13123
Middleton Cemetery33.65985-82.16928
Modoc Cemetery33.73512-82.20595
Mount Carmel Cemetery34.01206-82.50957
Mount Vernon Cemetery33.9604-82.09206
New Hope Cemetery33.87429-82.24901
Old Bethany Cemetery33.92456-82.18595
Old Rohoboth Cemetery33.84179-82.14678
Overbrook Cemetery33.92503-82.2801
Parksville Cemetery33.78818-82.21901
Pine Grove Cemetery33.82373-82.28706
Plum Branch Cemetery33.85151-82.2529
Republican Cemetery33.86191-82.3412
Rohoboth Cemetery33.84123-82.14678
Wideman - Harris - Wilks Cemetery33.99484-82.37401
Wideman Cemetery33.94262-82.34401
Willington Cemetery33.95706-82.47596
Historical populated places — 3 of 3
NameLatLon
Bethany33.84957-82.15068
Dornville33.91874-82.24096
Whites Cross Roads33.92374-82.15846

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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