Folk-Holloway House
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N 34° 16.074 W 081° 25.177
17S E 461371 N 3791940
Folk-Holloway House
Waymark Code: WMKEPE
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 04/01/2014
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This marker is located in Pomaria, South Carolina, in Newberry County. Marker is on Holloway Street, on the right when traveling south.
This marker was erected in 2001 by the Newberry County Historical Society.
The inscription is as follows:
This house, built ca. 1820 for John Adam Folk (1799-1855) is an excellent example of a 19th-century two-story farmhouse. Folk, a farmer and merchant, was also postmaster at Tanner's Hill (now Pomaria) 1829-40. Later the home of Folk's daughter Martha and her husband Thomas W. Holloway (1829-1903), who chartered the town of Pomaria in 1903, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Marker Name: Folk-Holloway House
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker number: 36-17
County: Newberry
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