Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County. The town was named for Alexander Mebane, an American Revolutionary War general and member of the U.S. Congress. It was incorporated as "Mebanesville" in 1881, and in 1883 the name was changed to "Mebane". It was incorporated as a city in 1987. The population as of the 2020 census was 17,768. Mebane is one of the fastest-growing municipalities in North Carolina. Mebane straddles the Research Triangle and Piedmont Triad Regions of North Carolina. The bulk of the city is in Alamance County, which comprises the Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, itself a component of the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Statistical Area. Two slivers in the eastern portion of the city are in Orange County, which is part of the Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area, itself a component of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area.
Halifax Historic District is a national historic district located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina, US that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It includes several buildings that are individually listed on the National Register. Halifax was the site of the signing of the Halifax Resolves on April 12, 1776, a set of resolutions of the North Carolina Provincial Congress which led to the United States Declaration of Independence gaining the support of North Carolina's delegates to the Second Continental Congress in that year.
Charles F. and Howard Cates Farm, also known as Swathmoor Farm, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 5 contributing structures on a farm near Mebane. The district includes the two-story double-pile Cates farmhouse and a collection of outbuildings and supporting structures. These include outbuildings probably associated with pickle manufacture such as the packhouse and the office (c. 1920); outbuildings associated with dairying including the multipurpose barn, the well house, and the milk barn ; and the mule barn, gas house, tool shed, pump house, privy, and chicken house. Its owner Charles F. Cates was instrumental in establishing the Woodlawn School.
Henderson Scott Farm Historic District is a historic farm and national historic district located near Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings on a farm near Mebane. The district includes the Federal style First Henderson Scott House (1836), Greek Revival style Second Henderson Scott House (1849), smokehouse, garage (1918), milk/butter House, Henderson Scott Store (1855), sheep barn, dairy barn 1, chicken house, and wellhouse.
The Oneida Cotton Mills and Scott-Mebane Manufacturing Company Complex, also known as the Scott and Donnell Mill, is a historic hosiery mill building in Graham, Alamance County, North Carolina. It consists of four contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The buildings date from 1882 into the 1940s; all are red-brick except for a small shed-roofed bathroom building from the 1940s. The complex includes the Scott and Donnell Mill, a smokestack (1882), Holt Mill, Scott-Mebane Manufacturing Company, and opener Room.
Old South Mebane Historic District is a national historic district located at Mebane, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 308 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Mebane. The district primarily includes one- to two-story frame residences in a variety of vernacular and popular architectural styles including Colonial Revival, American Craftsman, and Queen Anne styles. The earliest dwellings date to about 1900.
West Asheville–Aycock School Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings in a commercial and institutional section of West Asheville. It includes one and two-story brick civic and commercial buildings, dating from about 1915 to 1936. Their development was influenced by streetcar service along the Haywood Road corridor that operated from 1910 to 1934. Notable buildings contributing to the historic district include the McGeachy Filling Station, Buckner Building, West Asheville Fire Station (1922), Charles B. Aycock School (1953), West Asheville Bank and Trust Company, DeLuxe Barber Shop (1927), and Universal Motors (1928).
Lenoir Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. The district includes 41 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Lenoir. It includes commercial, governmental, and institutional buildings in a variety of popular architectural styles including Art Deco, Art Moderne, Classical Revival and Tudor Revival. Notable contributing resources include the Center Theater (1941), O. P. Lutz Furniture Company and Lutz Hosiery Mill (1939), Dayvault's Drug Store (1937), Caldwell County Agricultural Building (1937), Courtney Warehouse, Masonic Hall, Miller Building, Confederate Monument (1910), Belk's Department Store (1928), Lenoir Building (1907), J. C. Penney Department Store, Fidelity Building (1928), and U. S. Post Office (1931). Located in the district is the separately listed Caldwell County Courthouse.
Farmington Historic District is a national historic district located at Farmington, Davie County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing objects in the unincorporated community of Farmington. It primarily includes residential, agricultural, commercial, religious, and educational buildings with notable examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, American Craftsman, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the Farmington Community Cemetery (1881), Wiseman-Kennen House (1873), Dr. Lester P. and Helen Bahnson Martin House, Williard Garage (1920s), Francis Marion Johnson Store, Charles F. and Jane A. Bahnson House, Jarvis-Horne Store, Brock Marker, Farmington School Auditorium, Cafeteria, and Home Economics Classroom, Farmington School Agricultural Building (1936), (former) Farmington Baptist Church (1882), Farmington Methodist Church, and Farmington Post Office/Barber Shop.
Irving Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 164 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in an affluent planned suburb of Greensboro. It developed around the Greensboro Country Club. The houses were largely built between 1911 and the 1930s and include notable examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Classical Revival-style architecture. Notable buildings include the first Robert Jesse Mebane House, the Cummins A. Mebane House, the Lynn Williamson House, the first J. Spencer Love House, the Aubrey L. Brooks House, Carl I. Carlson House, the Van Wyck Williams House, the Lavlson L. Simmons House, the Albert J. Klutz House, the Irving Park Manor Apartments, McAdoo-Sanders-Tatum House, the Alfred M. Scales House, and the Herman Cone House.
Benson Historic District is a national historic district located at Benson, Johnston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 104 contributing buildings in the town of Benson. It includes notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and buildings dating from about 1900 to 1930. It includes commercial, residential, ecclesiastical, and educational structures. Notable buildings include the Farmers Commercial Bank (1921), C. T. Johnson Building (1910), James E. Wilson Livery Stable· and Store, Carolina-Parrish Hotel, Boon-Lawhorn House, Lonnie Stevens House, Dr. Parker-Allen House, Baptist Church (1914-1915), United Methodist Church (1917), and Benson Elementary School.
West Selma Historic District is a national historic district located at Selma, Johnston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 217 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structures in predominantly residential section of Selma. It includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Moderne, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and buildings dating from about 1880 to 1961. Located in the district is the separately listed Nowell-Mayerburg-Oliver House and William E. Smith House. Other notable buildings include the Edgerton Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Abdalla House, Dr. Joshua W. Vick House, Stella and William H. Etheridge House, Dr. R. Marvin Blackmon House, Samuel P. Wood House (1935), Janie and C. E. Kornegay House (1923), Selma Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church/Vernon Wiggs House, and Pepsi Bottling Company.
Lincolnton Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 2 contributing objects in the central business district of Lincolnton. It includes a variety of commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings dating between about 1900 and 1955. Located in the district are the separately listed Classical Revival style Lincoln County Courthouse and First United Methodist Church. Other notable buildings include the Frank Beal House, Karl L. Lawing House, Reinhardt Building, Carolina First National Bank, Central Candy and Cigar Company, Jonas Building, Wampum Department Stores, Rhodes and Corriher Company building, and Coca-Cola Bottling Company building.
Everetts Historic District is a national historic district located at Everetts, Martin County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 84 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the town of Everetts. They include notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Romanesque, and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture in buildings dated from the 1870s through the 1950s. Most of the district's extant historic buildings date from the early 1900s and 1910s. Located in the district is the separately listed Everetts Christian Church. Other notable buildings include the Simon Peter and Minerva Jane Everett House (1870s), Peel House, Barnhill's Hardware and Grocery Store (1907), the J. S. Peel Commercial Building (1909), Taylor-Peel House, and the Everetts Community Building (1952).
Old Fort Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Old Fort, McDowell County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Old Fort. It includes notable examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival and Art Moderne architecture built between 1894 and 1960. Notable buildings include the Bank of Old Fort, Rockett Motors, Roxy Theatre, and Railroad Depot (1894).
Pineville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Pineville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 15 contributing buildings in the central business district of Pineville. It was developed between about 1873 and 1960 and consists of contiguous rows of one-story and two-story, brick commercial buildings. Notable buildings include Younts General Store, Pineville Loan and Savings Bank, Yandell Hotel and Grocery Building (1925), and McCoy Barbershop/Pineville Post Office (1955).
Carrboro Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Carrboro, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of Carrboro. The district's buildings date from about 1910 to the mid-1920s and are primarily one- and two-story brick commercial buildings. Notable buildings include the "Flatiron Building", Hearn's Grocery (1924), a Bank and Jewelry Store, the Miles Andrews House, Western Auto Store, and the building at 118-120 East Main Street.
Leaksville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of the town of Eden. It includes buildings dated between about 1885 and 1939, and notable examples of Greek Revival, Classical Revival, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include a house built about 1840, the Realty Building (1924-1925), Leaksville Mercantile Building, Carter-Moir Hardware/Smith-Lane Store, the Fagg-King Building, Mitchell's Drug Store (1936), DeHart Building (1938), and United States Post Office (1939) designed by architect Louis A. Simon and built as a Works Progress Administration project.
Spray Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 70 contributing buildings, 9 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in an industrial section of the town of Eden. It includes buildings associated with eight textile mill complexes, mill village housing, and seven commercial buildings. Notable contributing resources include the Smith River Dam and Spray Power canal, Morehead Cotton Mill complex, "Superintendent's" House, Imperial Bank and Trust Company (1912), Leaksville Cotton Mills complex, Spray Mercantile Building, Spray Cotton Mills complex, Lily Mill complex, Nantucket Mills complex designed by R. C. Biberstein, American Warehouse Company complex, Rhode Island Mill complex, Phillips-Chatham House, and Spray Woolen Mill complex.
Varina Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Fuquay-Varina, Wake County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings in the central business district of Fuquay-Varina. The district developed between about 1899 and 1926, and includes notable examples of early-20th century commercial architecture. Notable buildings include the Union Station, Varina Hotel, Bank of Varina, Varina Garage and Machine Company Building, Drug Store, and Bank of Varina (1926).
