The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Lowrys.
The People's Free Library of South Carolina was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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History · Lowrys
Lowrys was first counted by the census in 1910, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the People's Free Library of South Carolina. Below: maps from 1982 on and the census since 1910.
1910first census
1on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Lowrys began
When was Lowrys founded?
1910
Lowrys first appears in the census in 1910. Another post office, Lowryville (1852), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 343 in 19102020 census: 184116 years
Founding year: the first census.The full story ↓
What stands out about Lowrys’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lowrys’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Lowrys, 1852 to 1982
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Lowrys on the map in 1982
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lowrys.
1982Lowrys sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lowrys.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Lowrys
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
People's Free Library of South Carolina
Buildings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Lowrys, census by census
Between 184 and 368 people in every census since 1910.
12 censuses, 1910–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lowrys’ Wikipedia page.
Famous people
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Nobody well known was born in Lowrys itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices and places now gone
Lowrys had its own post office from 1923 to 1967. Another post office, Lowryville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Lowryville
Lowrys
18501940today
Gone or out of use
Lowryville Schoolschool
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Lowrys’ history
What year was Lowrys founded?
The Lowrys post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Lowrys?
One place: the People's Free Library of South Carolina (listed 1982).
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.