Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. It is the 23rd most populous city in North Carolina. Located approximately 40 mi (64 km) east of the capital city of Raleigh, it is served by the interchange of Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 264. Wilson had an estimated population of 49,459 in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids CSA, with a total population of 297,726 as of 2018.
This is a list of structures, sites, districts, and objects on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina:
Williams House or Williams Farm may refer to:
The Battle of Plymouth was an engagement during the American Civil War that was fought from April 17 through April 20, 1864, in Washington County, North Carolina.
Hayes Plantation, also known as Hayes Farm, is a historic plantation near Edenton, North Carolina that belonged to Samuel Johnston (1733–1816), who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789. Johnston became one of the state's first two United States Senators, serving from 1789 until 1793, and served later as a judge until retiring in 1803. Samuel Johnston died in 1816 at "the Hermitage," his home near Williamston in Martin County, N.C. The residence known as Hayes was completed by his son, James Cathcart Johnston, a year after Samuel's death. There are numerous other structures on the property, some predating the Hayes house itself, including the Hayes Gatehouse, which James Johnston lived in prior to the construction of the Hayes house.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilson County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Whitehead Light is a lighthouse on Whitehead Island, on Muscle Ridge Channel, in the southwestern entrance to Penobscot Bay, Maine. It is in the town of St.George. Established in 1804, it is one of Maine's oldest light stations, with its present tower built in 1852 to a design attributed to Alexander Parris. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Whitehead Light Station on March 14, 1988. The property is now owned by not for profit Pine Island Camp. Whitehead light station offers to the public various stays at the light station from getaway weekends to learning retreats and renting the station as a vacation home. The light itself remains an active aid to navigation, maintained by the United States Coast Guard.
Benton & Benton was an architectural partnership in eastern North Carolina of brothers Charles C. Benton Sr. and Frank W. Benton. Several of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Charles C. Benton Jr. and others also worked for the firm.
The Old Wilson Historic District in Wilson, North Carolina is a 164-acre (66 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1984. It includes work dating from 1853 and work designed by architect Solon Balias Moore and others. The listing included 263 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, and three contributing objects.
Oswald Lipscomb (1872–1930) was an American master carpenter.
The House in the Horseshoe, also known as the Alston House, is a historic house in Glendon, North Carolina in Moore County, and a historic site managed by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' Historic Sites division. The home, built in 1772 by Philip Alston, was the site of a battle between loyalists under the command of David Fanning and patriot militiamen under Alston's command on either July 29 or August 5, 1781. The battle ended with Alston's surrender to Fanning, in which Alston's wife negotiated the terms with the loyalists.
Williams House, also known as the John Wilson Williams House, is a historic home located near Ulmer, Allendale County, South Carolina. The house consists of a residence built about 1800, with an addition built about 1906. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, lateral gable-roofed, log and clapboard hall and parlor farmhouse. The main body of the house consists of two rooms measuring approximately 30 feet by 16 feet. The Williams Home Place has remained continually in the same family for more than 200 years.
Brinegar Cabin is a historic home located near Whitehead, Alleghany County, North Carolina. It was built about 1880, and is a one-story log house covered with lapped siding and resting on an uncoursed fieldstone foundation. Also on the property is a contributing frame outbuilding. The property is part of the lands comprising the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the cabin houses a display of mountain crafts and weaving.
Whitehead-Fogleman Farm is a historic home and farm located near Crutchfield Crossroads, Chatham County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1838, and is a two-story, Federal style frame dwelling. Also on the property are the contributing saddle-notch log corn crib, a square-notch log and board-and-batten well house, a large V-notch log barn, and a one-room board-and-batten kitchen.
Upper Town Creek Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Wilson, in Edgecombe and Wilson County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 117 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures on four contiguous farms near Wilson. The main plantation house on each farm are the Federal-style W. D. Petway House ; the Greek Revival house built for Colonel David Williams ; the house built for Cally S. Braswell ; and the board and batten Gothic Revival Jesse Norris House. The remaining contributing building and structures include packhouses, tobacco barns, tenant houses, and other agricultural outbuildings.
Elm City Municipal Historic District is a national historic district located at Elm City, Wilson County, North Carolina. It encompasses 85 contributing buildings in the railroad town of Lucama. The district developed between about 1873 to 1930 and includes notable examples of Classical Revival, Early Commercial, and Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include the Batts & Williams Store (1884), G. A. Barnes Store (1912), Dawes Building (1914), Elm City Bank (1920s), Holden House, A. C. Dixon House, G. A. Barnes House, W. G. Sharpe House, Dr. Robert Putney, Sr., House, and L. C. Cobb House (1927).
West Nash Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It encompasses 79 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Wilson. The district largely developed during the 1910s and 1920s and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the William W. Graves House, Selby Hurt· Anderson House, Williams-Cozart House, John T. Barnes House, Graham-Woodard House, M. Douglas Aycock House (1925-1928), John D. Gold House, Boykin's Filling Station, and West End Grocery.
Davis-Whitehead-Harriss House is a historic home located at Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858, and renovated in 1872 in the Italianate style. It is a two-story, three bays wide, "T"-plan, frame dwelling, with a rear ell. It has single-shouldered, brick end chimneys with stuccoed stacks and a one-story, hipped roof front porch. Also on the property is a two-story frame carriage house built in 1925.
Alfred and Martha Jane Thompson House and Williams Barn is a historic home located near New Hope, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was built in approximately 1895, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame double-pile dwelling with Greek Revival and Italianate style design elements. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a brick pier foundation and an engaged front porch. The property also contains a gambrel roofed barn built about 1930.
