------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C08FA8.C2A2C9E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Newberry Jan.21, 1939 Article taken from the Spartanburg Herald-Journal newspaper; Newberry, Jan.21.-ZACK WRIGHT, president of the Newberry Cotton Mill = and a member of the state highway commission has been named chairman of a= committee to formulate plans for the observance of Newberry's Sesquicen= tennial , which is scheduled to take place on it's 150th anniversary in M= arch. History shows that the town of Newberry was incorporated in March, = 1789. Looking backward one finds that some 40 years or more before the to= wn organization, settlers began to arrive in this section and by 1762, th= e vicinity was pretty well settled. PROPERTY DONATED The beginning of the town is dated from the time when property was = given to erect the public buildings. For some time the county court , a= judicial organization composed of 11 justices which was done away with i= n 1899, argued concerning the location of the public building or a courth= ouse and finally a present was made by 'Little John' COATES of two acres on which to erect a public building. The court decided to build on the pr= operty offered by Coates and thus began the city of Newberry. From a small shop with only a few small homes and one store, the place= then called "Coates Shop', there has been a gradual growth. Little proba= bly did the early settlers think that Newberry would expand and grow to = it's present size. Hardly did they conceive of the schools, churches, col= lege, hospital, libraries, theaters, newspapers, three cotton mills , man= y big business concerns; of charities and benevolences, social groups, of= traffic and trade; of a Newberry whose slogan has become 'The City of Friendly Folks'. LAND FOR COURT From the annals of Newberry, all account of the giving of this land fo= r a courthouse is shown as follows; "At March court, 1789, present, ROBERT RUTHERFORD, JAMES MAYSON, JACOB R= OBERTS BROWN, PHILEMON WATERS, WILLIAM CALDWELL, MERCER BABB and THOMA= S W. WATERS, JUSTICES, it appears from an entry that John Coates made a p= resent to the county of two acres, on which to erect a courthouse, which = was accepted by the vote of all present except; ROBERT RUTHERFORD who obj= ected by reason the place was not centrical. Col. PHILEMON WATERS and WI= LLIAM CALDWELL were directed to lay out two acres of land , which they di= d and returned a platt. It is embraced by the parallegram made by Caldwel= l St. on the east, Pratt St. south, McKibben St. west and Boyce St. nort= h. =20 Titles were made and MR. COATES was called into court and received the t= hanks of the justices for this liberality". Newberry is the home of approx. 10,000 persons, many of them descendan= ts of pioneers of 150 years ago.<br clear=3Dall><hr>Get your FREE downloa= d of MSN Explorer at <a href=3D"http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.= ms