These four acres were conveyed to St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in 1835, and by November of that year the congregation had built and dedicated a building. It is believed that the community of St. Andrews derived its name from this church. In 1949, . . . — — Map (db m21532) HM
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The Town of Irmo was established in a small farming community when the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad constructed its line here in february of 1890. The town was incorporated by the SC General Assembly in December of . . . — — Map (db m21525) HM
The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown. In 1788, however, Bethlehem and fourteen other churches signed the articles of the "Corpus Evangelicum," an early church supervising body. By 1815, Bethlehem's first known building had been . . . — — Map (db m42197) HM
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago philanthropist and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., (1910-1925), helped fund this black school, built 1918. The original two-room structure was named in Rosenwald's honor and the school's curriculum eventually included . . . — — Map (db m42157) HM
St. Paul Church
One of the first black churches after the Civil War, St. Paul AME began as Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church. Local tradition says that the original small congregation worshipped in the 1850s in the "Bush Arbor;" . . . — — Map (db m35996) HM
