Lawrence Genealogy and Local History Room

United States South Carolina  Greenwood County, South Carolina  Greenwood County Library

Contact Information
Greenwood County Library Lawrence Genealogy and Local History Room 600 South Main Street Greenwood, SC 29646 E-mail: ReferenceDesk@greenwoodcountylibrary.org For hours, please call 864-941-4655 If you visit the Library when the Lawrence Room is closed, please ask the Reference Librarian for assistance. Library staff will be happy to retrieve materials for you.

Microfilm
Newspapers Church Records Military Records Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (South Carolina 1-1 through 12 and Continental Troops 1-16-2) Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Abbeville and Greenwood) Virginia Court Records A list of court records of the Virginia Counties on microfilm in the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library
 * Abbeville Press and Banner, 1846-1903
 * Edgefield Advertiser, October 15, 1856-April 22, 1868
 * Greenwood Light, 1885-1886
 * Greenwood Tribune, 1886-1888
 * Greenwood Times, 1889
 * McCormick Advance, 1886-1887
 * McCormick News, 1892
 * Ninety-Six Guardian, 1878-1889
 * Ninety-Six Star, 1906
 * Psalm Singer, 1886
 * Saluda Argus, 1884
 * Greenwood Index, September 12, 1895-1918 (1906 missing)
 * Greenwood Journal., November 1, 1897-1918 (1906 missing)
 * Greenwood Index-Journal, 1939-present
 * Broadmouth Baptist Church, 1837-1966
 * Siloam Baptist Church, 1834-1876
 * Turkey Creek Baptist Church, 1785-1909

Books
Greenwood County Histories
 * Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families, by Margaret J Watson; Harry Legare Watson, Publisher: Greenwood, S.C., Attic Press [1970]

City Directories

Cemeteries

Online Resources
Obituary Index Obituary and death notice index for the Greenwood Index-Journal newspaper, abstracted from the Greenwood County Library's microfilm holdings by the GCL Reference Department staff and volunteers.

Heritage Quest

Ancestry.com Library Edition)