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This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rowan County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 14 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 15, 2024.
84000619 [1] Added to NRHP. December 20, 1984. Spencer Historic District is a national historic district located at Spencer, Rowan County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 242 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Spencer. It largely developed between about 1902 and 1937, and ...
Rowan County (/ r oʊ ˈ æ n / roh-AN) is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina that was formed in 1753, as part of the British Province of North Carolina.It was originally a vast territory with unlimited western boundaries, but its size was reduced to 524 square miles (1,360 km 2) after several counties were formed from Rowan County in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Rowan County, North Carolina" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Built from 1776 to 1863. The following table shows the plantations in North Carolina that were built between 1776 and the end of the Civil War. / 35.83750°N 77.621806°W / 35.83750; -77.621806 ( Adelphia Plantation) / 36.05333°N 78.19583°W / 36.05333; -78.19583 ( Archibald H. Davis Plantation) Built in 1820 (about).
Mount Vernon is a historic plantation house, farm complex, and national historic district located near Woodleaf, in Scotch Irish Township, Rowan County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1822, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a full-width, one-story shed roofed porch.
History The town of Morehead in 1890. It is believed that Rowan County was first explored by those of European descent in 1773 by a party of surveyors from Pennsylvania. The first settlement was established in Farmers, a town 10 miles west of Morehead. Its population rapidly increased due its fertile farming land and proximity to water sources.