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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Lowmans Crossroads. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Lowmans Crossroads to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lowmans Crossroads, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Lowmans Crossroads (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lowmans Crossroads. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Lowmans Crossroads ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Lowmans Crossroads: Lowmans Xrds.
- While the name of this community is Lowmans Crossroads, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Lowmans Crossroads may originally have been Lowman's Crossroads.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Lowmans Crossroads might be written as Lowman Crossroads.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Lowmans Crossroads is historic, it would have been located within present day Newberry County.
To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Newberry County: Fairfield, Greenwood, Laurens, Lexington, Richland, Saluda & Union.
Below are the counties that are near Lowmans Crossroads. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lowmans Crossroads:
- Newberry County (The home county of Lowmans Crossroads)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Stoney Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Stoney Hill is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Hill
- Slighs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Slighs is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slighs
- Prosperity
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Little Mountain
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Union
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Union is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Pomaria
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Peak
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Newberry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sondleys ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Sondleys is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sondleys
- Helena
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Helena is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Silverstreet
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Old Town Ferry
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Old Town Ferry is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town Ferry
- Aiken County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Monetta
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Seivern
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Seivern is located in Aiken County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seivern
- Edgefield County
- Johnston
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fairfield County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Jenkinsville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Hill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Hill is located in Fairfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Hill
- Monticello
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Monticello is located in Fairfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
- Blair
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Rion
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Winnsboro Mills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Winnsboro Mills is located in Fairfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winnsboro Mills
- Winnsboro
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Adger
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Adger is located in Fairfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adger
- Greenwood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Ninety Six
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Springdale
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Springdale is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale
- Lancaster County
- Springdale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Laurens County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Kinards
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Anglers Haven
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Anglers Haven is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglers Haven
- Joanna
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Renno
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Renno is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renno
- Cross Hill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dover ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dover is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Lexington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Ella
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ella is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ella
- Lake Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Village is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Village
- Chapin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Clubhouse Crossroads
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Clubhouse Crossroads is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clubhouse Crossroads
- Fredonia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Fredonia is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredonia
- Leesville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Summit
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Summit is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
- Population from the 2020 Census: 486 people
- Batesburg - Leesville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Batesburg - Leesville is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batesburg - Leesville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,402 people
- Batesburg
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Gilbert
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Irmo
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Irmo is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irmo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 12,734 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Irmo <3>
- Lexington
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Richland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- White Rock
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Lake Murray of Richland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Ballentine
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Dutch Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Dutch Village is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Village
- Cedar Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Cedar Creek is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Saint Andrews
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Saint Andrews is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
- Belmont
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Columbia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Hollywood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Hollywood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollywood
- Brickyard Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Brickyard Village is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickyard Village
- Forest Acres
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Forest Acres is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Acres
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,269 people
- Arcadia Lakes
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Arcadia Lakes is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia Lakes
- Population from the 2020 Census: 874 people
- Saluda County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Hickory Grove
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Hickory Grove is located in Saluda County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
- Saluda
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ridge Spring
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Ward
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Union County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Sartor Town
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Sartor Town is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sartor Town
- Tuckertown
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Tuckertown is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckertown
- Delta
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Delta is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lowmans Crossroads, see our County-by-County Page for Lowmans Crossroads.
Cemeteries Near Lowmans Crossroads ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lowmans Crossroads.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Lowmans Crossroads - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lowmans Crossroads covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- O'Neal Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Bethel Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Zion Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Moriah Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Macedonia Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Old Lexington Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Pilgrim Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Stoney Hill.
- The St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Luke's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71257 <4>
- Mt. Hebron Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Prosperity Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Mt. Tabor Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (335 more) ...
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Nazareth Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Shiloh Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Lowmans Crossroads in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lowmans Crossroads.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lowmans Crossroads, with the one closest to Lowmans Crossroads listed first.
- Ella
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ella is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ella
- Slighs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Slighs is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slighs
- Prosperity
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Little Mountain
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Chapin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pomaria
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Fredonia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Fredonia is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredonia
- White Rock
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Leesville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Summit
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Summit is located in Lexington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
- Population from the 2020 Census: 486 people
- Alston
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Alston is located in Fairfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alston
- Peak
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Batesburg
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Ballentine
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Sondleys ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Sondleys is located in Newberry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sondleys
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lowmans Crossroads. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lowmans Crossroads.
Newspapers Published in Lowmans Crossroads ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lowmans Crossroads.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lowmans Crossroads, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lowmans Crossroads.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lowmans Crossroads:
- Websites specific to South Carolina
- Pages specific to Newberry County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Aiken County
- Edgefield County
- Fairfield County
- Greenwood County
- Lancaster County
- Laurens County
- Lexington County
- Richland County
- Saluda County
- Union County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for South Carolina
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lowmans Crossroads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lowmans Crossroads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |