Rosemont Cemetery
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(Front) This cemetery, chartered and established in 1863, was the second major cemetery in Newberry. It replaced the Village Cemetery 1 mi. S on Coates St., which had been established in 1809. Laid out on an 8-2-acre tract between Newberry College and the Calmes Family Cemetery, Rosemont Cemetery was later expanded to its present 40 acres.
Some Newberry families moved the graves of loved ones from the Village Cemetery to Rosemont Cemetery. (Reverse) In 1890 John A. Chapman called Rosemont “the Silent City adjoining our town,” commenting, “Eternal peace broods over it.” The granite piers flanking the original entrance were donated by the Newberry Civic League, founded in 1905.
Among the notables buried here are a governor who was later a U.S. Senator, state senators and representatives, judges, ministers, doctors, and soldiers of wars from the American Revolution to the present. Sponsored by the City of Newberry, 2014
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