A. R. P. Church, Newberry, S.C. 1910

The Associate Reformed Presbyterians are the fourth oldest denomination in Newberry County. The Rev. John Renwick from County Antrim, Ireland, was the leader of the sect that fuonded King's Creek and Cannon's Creek churches in the early 1770's. These were the mother churches of the Associate Reformed Snynod of the South. From these came: Mt. Bethel, Gilder's Creek, Prosperity, Head Spring, Newberry, and Unity Churches. Newberry and Cannon's Creek are the only ones that remain. The Newberry church was founded in 1854 on a lot given by Dr. Thomas W. Thompson. The church was known as Thompson Street Church until destroyed by the 'Great Fire of 1907'. The church was rebuilt at its present location at the corner of Main and Calhoun streets and renamed. Cannon's Creek was moved from its original location to a point on the Newberry-Prosperity Highway in 1948. The Prosperity Church was abandoned and its members united with Cannon's Creek.

Newberry and Prosperity Reformed Presbyterian Church Bible School - about 1945

1) Dorothy Dickert Bowers, 2) Ann Bowers

Can you help identify these young people?