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house cost $8,000, the jail $6,000, the market $2,100 A new brick opera 

 house cost $25,000, seats 1,000 persons, and rents for $40 a night. The 

 wliites have six churches, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, the 

 Associate Reformed and the Episcopal, built at an aggregate cost of 

 $18,000, capacity, 4,000 seats, and three colored churches, costing $4,500. 

 There are flourishing organizations of Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of 

 Honor, and Sons of Temperance. The Newberry College buildings cost 

 $20,000, the Female Academy $2,500, the Male Academy $1,000, the 

 Hoge School (colored) $1,500. The average rental of stores is $350.00 ; 

 of dwellings, $200.00. Building materials are brick and pine lumber 

 from the vicinity, and granite, great quantities of which of the finest 

 quality are found in three to five miles of the town. The mayor and 

 aldermen serve without pay. The town tax is two mills on the dollar, 

 and a revenue, in addition, of $2,400 from licenses. There is a debt of 

 $22,000, incurred in 1881, for building the opera house ; interest, seven 

 per cent. The Newberry National Bank has a paid in capital of $150,000 ; 

 surplus, $99,278. Twenty thousand bales of cotton are shipped annually 

 to New York and Norfolk. The yearly sales are given as, provisions, 

 $450,000; dry gccds, $200,000; hardware, $75,000; miscellaneous, 

 $125,000. A large cotton mill is about being built. 



SPARTANBURG COUNTY 



has twenty-three towns and trading settlements, with one hundred and 

 sixty-six stores, distributed as follows : Spartanburg C. H., seventy -four 

 stores ; Gaffney, thirty-two stores ; Woodruff, eight stores ; Pacolet and 

 Wellford, six stores each; Cowi)ens and Landrum, five stores each; Cross 

 Anchor and Reidville, four stores each ; Dumans, New Prospect and In- 

 man, three stores each ; Campobello, Damascus, Hobbyville and Martin- 

 ville, two stores each ; Compton, Crawfordsville, Fingerville, Glenn 

 Springs, Hills Factory and Rich Hill, one store each. Of this number, 

 seven sell hardware, fourteen dry goods, thirty-one miscellaneous ar- 

 ticles, and one hundred and fourteen general merchandise. The esti- 

 mated wealth of the storekeepers is $1,242,000. 



Spartanburg, the county seat, is situated at the junction of the Spar- 

 tanburg, Union and Columbia railroad, and the Spartanburg and Ashe- 

 ville railroad with the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line railroad. The 

 population, in 1820, was 800 ; in 1840, it was 1,000 ; in 1850, it was 1,170 ; 

 in 18G0, it was 1,216 ; in 1870, it was 1,080 ; it 1880 it was 3,253. It has 

 an elevation above the sea level of seven hundred and eighty -seven feet. 

 Besides the court house and jail, there is an opera house costing $11,000, 

 and three large and handsome brick hotels, one of which has one hun- 



