The Lutheran Classical and Theological Seminary was located here from 1834 to 1855. The Synod of S.C. established the seminary in 1831 to promote the education of Lutheran ministers in the Southeast. It first opened in Pomaria, in Newberry County, but was soon moved to this site, then one-half mile from the town of Lexington Court House. The seminary opened here in 1834 with Dr. Ernest L. Hazelius, a native of Prussia who had come to America in 1800, serving as headmaster until 1851. The seminary moved to Newberry in 1855 and became Newberry College in 1856.