National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina facts for kids

This is a list of structures, sites, districts, and objects on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina:

As of May 1, 2015, there are more than 2,900 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 100 North Carolina counties, including 39 National Historic Landmarks, two National Historic Sites, one National Military Park, one National Memorial and one National Battlefield.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 31, 2017.

Current listings by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. The counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

Oak Island Lighthouse, Caswell Beach

Heck-Andrews House, Raleigh

Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham

Wood Lawn, Mount Mourne

First Christian Church, Robersonville

Wilkes County Courthouse, Wilkesboro

Henderson Fire Station and Municipal Building, Henderson

Pisgah Community Covered Bridge, Pisgah

Pelletier House, Jacksonville

Madison County Courthouse, Marshall

Asheville City Hall, Asheville

Guilford College Historic District, Greensboro

Shell Service Station, Winston-Salem

Falcon Tabernacle, Falcon

Old Davidson County Courthouse, Lexington

Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill

Bodie Island Light Station, Nags Head

Mast General Store, Valle Crucis

Old Main, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke

Moratock Iron Furnace, Danbury

Fort Defiance, Lenoir

	County/City	# of Sites
1	Alamance	66
2	Alexander	1
3	Alleghany	10
4	Anson	7
5	Ashe	26
6	Avery	12
7	Beaufort	18
8	Bertie	23
9	Bladen	13
10	Brunswick	15
11	Buncombe	111
12	Burke	38
13	Cabarrus	28
14	Caldwell	17
15	Camden	7
16	Carteret	16
17	Caswell	22
18	Catawba	63
19	Chatham	54
20	Cherokee	8
21	Chowan	24
22	Clay	3
23	Cleveland	27
24	Columbus	6
25	Craven	54
26	Cumberland	70
27	Currituck	12
28	Dare	32
29	Davidson	55
30	Davie	20
31	Duplin	19
32	Durham	77
33	Edgecombe	36
34	Forsyth	100
35	Franklin	37
36	Gaston	32
37	Gates	10
38	Graham	6
39	Granville	45
40	Greene	11
41	Guilford	110
42	Halifax	40
43	Harnett	18
44	Haywood	24
45	Henderson	36
46	Hertford	33
47	Hoke	5
48	Hyde	10
49	Iredell	46
50	Jackson	20
51	Johnston	35
52	Jones	8
53	Lee	17
54	Lenoir	30
55	Lincoln	30
56	Macon	23
57	Madison	16
58	Martin	28
59	McDowell	13
60	Mecklenburg	102
61	Mitchell	9
62	Montgomery	7
63	Moore	29
64	Nash	29
65	New Hanover	27
66	Northampton	16
67	Onslow	15
68	Orange	47
69	Pamlico	1
70	Pasquotank	11
71	Pender	15
72	Perquimans	18
73	Person	12
74	Pitt	30
75	Polk	23
76	Randolph	21
77	Richmond	17
78	Robeson	23
79	Rockingham	46
80	Rowan	61
81	Rutherford	26
82	Sampson	49
83	Scotland	15
84	Stanly	15
85	Stokes	15
86	Surry	21
87	Swain	12
88	Transylvania	22
89	Tyrrell	3
90	Union	12
91	Vance	22
92	Wake	209
93	Warren	25
94	Washington	10
95	Watauga	22
96	Wayne	17
97	Wilkes	22
98	Wilson	28
99	Yadkin	8
100	Yancey	8
(duplicates)		(11)
Total:		2,882

Images for kids

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  Wilkes County Courthouse, Wilkesboro

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  Pisgah Community Covered Bridge, Pisgah

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  Madison County Courthouse, Marshall