The Herald and News of Newberry on May 30, 1916 – “A.W. Logan a colored contractor, was arrested in Whitmire for obtaining money under false pretenses.”
City Directories and History: Whitmire emerged as a local trading and mill center
when the railroad came to town in 1890. Shortly thereafter, the Glenn-Lowry Mill was started and the town became a prosperous rural community for the next eighty years.
The Newberry Herald and News of May 9, 1894 reported, in the news from Whitmire, “Mr. Charles Tidmarsh has just completed a neat tenant house.”
Continuing our route along the Laurens and Newberry line, we come after awhile to the new and flourishing town of Whitmires, which takes its name from the old and respectable family of Whitmires, which was among the earliest settlers of that part of the county; that is to say, one hundred and twenty-five to a hundred and fifty years ago. Whitmires is on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Road, and is a flourishing business place with eight or ten stores (the first store was opened by Spearman & Tidmarsh, November, 1890), a school and divine service twice each month.
In August, 1890, the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad was completed through this section, thus giving it connection with the great world North and South and West. The town is about central between Newberry, Clinton and Union, being about eighteen miles from each.
About six miles from Whitmires, in the direction towards Newberry, lives the Hon. John W. Scott, on the same lands which his grand father settled when he came from Ireland about one hundred years ago. How many of us can say that we live upon and own the lands upon which our fathers settled when they came to Carolina from the old world, or across the country from tho colonies of Virginia and Pennsylvania?
The town was incorporated in 1891, and the sale of intoxicants as beverages was prohibited by the Act of Incorporation. The first City Council was composed of John P. Fant, Mayor; Aldermen: H. E. Todd, Dr. R. R. Jeter, Charles Tidmarsb and B. F. Morrow. The first election was held in January, 1892.
(Information from: The Annals of Newberry Co., SC – O’Neall and Chapman, Aull and Houseal Publishers – 1892)
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