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Every year, the town of Little Mountain hosts the " Little Mountain Town Reunion " during the month of August.

The Little Mountain Reunion is one of South Carolina ’ s oldest folk festivals.

It began in 1882, as an effort by a person connected to Newberry College for encouraging local class reunions, the hope being that it would generate interest in the new college.

The college experienced a number of set-backs since its organization ; misused by Federal troops during the Civil War, moved to Walhalla in the upper part of South Carolina, and finally back to Newberry, the county seat of Newberry County.

Because most people traveled either on two or four feet due to the lack of trains and automobiles, meeting places were selected mainly on the convenience of their location