Continue to Select a Major City below located in Newberry County, SC to find more Summer Camps in that City:
Newberry County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina . As of the 2010 census , its population was 37,508. Its county seat is Newberry . The name is of unknown origin.
Newberry County was formed from the Ninety Six District in 1785. Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781; and Bush River, May 1781. The town of Newberry was founded in 1789 as the county seat. Cotton was the primary crop grown in Newberry County before the Civil War and there were a number of plantations throughout the county. Newberry became a thriving trade center once the railroad arrived in the early 1850s. Lutheran-supported Newberry College was established in 1856. The Civil War not only interrupted growth in the county, it changed its social order. The first cotton mills were introduced in the county in the 1880s. Jurist John Belton O'Neall , historian David Duncan Wallace and S.C. Governor and U. S. Senator Coleman L. Blease were all Newberry County natives.