City Directories and History: An early 19th century home associated with the Holloway family. This is a wonderful example of a early Carolina “I” house style with the extended porch often called the Carolina Rain Porch.
The Folk-Holloway House is an important example of a common southern house type, the “I-House,” (a two-story, single pile dwelling with a central hall plan and one-story rear shed rooms) with regional features such as the recessed front porch deck and freestanding columns (a rain or “Carolina” type porch). The house was built ca. 1835 for John Adam Folk (1799-1855), a prominent local businessman and farmer. Atypical features include the triple entry and exterior wainscoting. The building is of pegged wood construction sheathed in wood clapboard. The lateral gable roof is covered with a standing seam metal roof. Though relatively plain, the house’s detailing exhibits characteristics of both the Federal and Greek Revival movements. The porch’s transitional Federal-Greek Revival wainscoting indicates its usage as an outdoor room and denotes the economic ability of the owner to achieve the finest detailing. The interior wood graining and imported hardware are indicative of the same level of sophistication. The intact original mantelpieces are of a very simple vernacular Federal design. Listed in the National Register July 30, 1992. (Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History)
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J. A. Folk & Sons did a large business as merchants at Pomaria until the year 1855, when they were succeeded by Thomas W. Holloway and his brother-in-law, H. H. Folk, who continued until Secession and the war.
After the war Thomas W. Holloway and Hayne D. Reid formed a co-partnership and carried on a large and lucrative business, until the murder of Reid and the burning of the house with the body of the murdered man in it by the assassin, Thompson, on the 24th of December, 1875. Thompson confessed the crime and was hanged. The burning of the house and the goods in it entailed a heavy loss upon the firm.
The late John A. Folk owned the land upon which the town of Pomaria was built. He died in 1855, leaving three sons and two daughters, J. D. A., Dr. H. M., H. H., Martha, the wife of Thomas W. Holloway, and Eustatia, half-sister of the above, who was married to John David Wedeman, who died leaving two sons.
(Information from: The Annals of Newberry Co., SC – O’Neall and Chapman, Aull and Houseal Publishers – 1892)
Previous to the year 1853 there were no banking facilities in Newberry. In that year the Bank of Newberry was organized, the capital stock being $300,000, which was increased in (probably) 1856 to $400,000. B. D. Boyd, who is now living at an advanced age in San Fernando, California, was its first and only president Thomas W. Holloway, of Pomaria, S. C., was its first cashier, and was succeeded in 1856 by Robert L. McCaughrin, of Newberry, who was at the time of his election just twenty-one years of age.
(Information from: The Annals of Newberry Co., SC – O’Neall and Chapman, Aull and Houseal Publishers – 1892)
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