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North Long Street–Park Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 46 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Salisbury.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Yadkin 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]
Notable buildings include the Henderlite-Kluttz House, Hines-Norman House, J. R. Crawford House, A. G. Peeler House, Davis-Wilhelm House, Salisbury-Spencer Railway Company's streetcar barn, Trexler-McSwain Store, Barringer and Rufty General Store, and the North Main Street School, now known as the John S. Henderson School. [2]
The Yadkin Ripple is a weekly newspaper based in Yadkinville, North Carolina. It was first published in East Bend, North Carolina, on October 18, 1892. The Ripple, published on Thursdays, was purchased in June 2007 by Heartland Publications. It shares a publisher and its production staff with The Tribune in Elkin and is printed at The Mount ...
Yadkin County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 37,214 at the 2020 census. [1] Its county seat is Yadkinville. [2] Yadkin County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area.
Located in the district is the separately listed Salisbury Southern Railroad Passenger Depot designed by Frank Pierce Milburn. Other notable buildings include the Cheerwine/Carolina Beverage Corporation Building (1913), Yadkin Hotel (1913), Frick Building (c. 1905), Boyden-Overman Company Cotton Warehouse (c. 1910), and Old Freight Depot (c. 1907).
Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless. Napoleon B. McCanless (1851 Gold Hill, Rowan Co. – 1920 Salisbury) was a prominent entrepreneur in the region, president of the Halifax Cotton Mill Co., and held interests in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, banking, and mining (the granite used for the house's facing representing his involvement in the last).
The Yadkin Ripple, a weekly newspaper still published in Yadkin County, began in East Bend in 1896. In 1904, the town's population was 444 and it boasted a hotel, two buggy factories, a tobacco bag factory, a bank, and several stores. However, a decision by the Southern Railroad to bypass the town 1890 put a damper on the town's growth.