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Davie County, North Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
20historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
42,712pop. 2020
5cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Mocksville, Cooleemee, Advance.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Davie titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Barnhardt, George E., HouseMocksvilleBuilding2009
Boxwood LodgeMocksvilleDistrict1995
Cana Store and Post OfficeMocksvilleBuilding2001
Center ArborCenterBuilding1991
Clement, Jesse, HouseMocksvilleBuilding1980
Cooleemee NHLMocksvilleBuilding1973
Cooleemee Mill Town Historic DistrictCooleemeeDistrict2014
Davie County CourthouseMocksvilleBuilding1979
Davie County JailMocksvilleBuilding1973
Downtown Mocksville Historic DistrictMocksvilleDistrict1990
Farmington Historic DistrictFarmingtonDistrict2010
Foard-Tatum HouseCooleemeeBuilding1994
Fulton United Methodist ChurchAdvanceBuilding1979
Helper, Hinton Rowan, House NHLMocksvilleBuilding1973
Hodges Business CollegeMocksvilleBuilding2000
McGuire-Setzer HouseMocksvilleBuilding1992
North Main Street Historic DistrictMocksvilleDistrict1990
Salisbury Street Historic DistrictMocksvilleDistrict1990
Shutt, John Edward Belle, House and OutbuildingsAdvanceBuilding1996
Win-Mock Farm DairyDavieBuilding2010

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Davie was formed in 1836 (1836-12-20) from Rowan.

DAVIE created from ROWAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Davie County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

43k25k7,5741840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
7,5748,49411,09612,11513,57814,90915,42016,72824,59934,83542,712

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

5 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed
NameLatLon
Cedar Creek Cemetery36.00318-80.54422
Farmington Community Cemetery36.01763-80.53644
Fork Cemetery35.87874-80.44616
Joppa Cemetery35.90911-80.57736
Rose Cemetery35.90458-80.55645
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Fulton35.88875-80.41644
Houstonville35.96152-80.69895

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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