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In 2010, Rutherford County was selected as the location for a new $450 million data center for Facebook. [33] [34] Horsehead Corporation announced the construction of its new, state-of-the-art zinc and diversified metals production facility in Rutherford County, NC, near the municipality of Forest City. [35]
Notable contributing buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1937), the Davis Sisters Building (after 1932), the Farmers Bank and Trust building (1923), National Bank of Forest City (1923), the Tuberculosis Center (1902), the Romina Theater (1928), the Town Hall (1928) designed by James J. Baldwin, the Blanton Hotel (1925), the Reinhardt Drug ...
Other notable contributing buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1931), the Norris Public Library (1933), (former) Rutherford County Jail, Commercial National Bank, Keeter Hardware Company Building, Geer Commercial Building, Southern Hotel Company Building, Geer-Warlick Motor Company Building, and City Hall (1925) designed by Milburn, Heister ...
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In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [10] [8] [9] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718
In 1928, a young agriculture teacher at Ellenboro School, A.B. Bushong, organized the first Colfax Free Fair held in early fall on the school grounds, providing an opportunity for farmers and homemakers to display their best efforts of the year: canned and baked goods, crops, and handicrafts.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rutherford 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. [1]
Gilbert Town Historic District is an archaeological site listed in the National Register of Historic Places located in Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina.From 1776 to 1783, Gilbert Town was an important trading center and served as a camp for both Patriot and Loyalist forces during the American Revolutionary War.