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Henderson County, North Carolina

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42historic places

—earliest paper

1838formed

116,281pop. 2020

73cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 42 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1968; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Hendersonville, Flat Rock, Fletcher.

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 Henderson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

17 of 42 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

42 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Aloah Hotel	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Berkeley Mills Ballpark	Hendersonville	Site	2016
Brookland	Flat Rock	Building	1982
Bryn Avon	Etowah	District	1999
Camp Arrowhead	Tuxedo	District	2005
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site NHL	Flat Rock	District	1968
Cedars, The	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Chewning House	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Clarke-Hobbs-Davidson House	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Cold Spring Park Historic District	Hendersonville	District	2009
Coxe, Mary Mills, House	Hendersonville	Building	1994
Druid Hills Historic District	Hendersonville	District	2000
Flat Rock Historic District	Flat Rock	District	1973
Flat Rock Historic District (Boundary Increase, Decrease and Additional Documentation)	Flat Rock	District	2015
Grey Hosiery Mill	Hendersonville	Building	2000
Henderson County Courthouse	Hendersonville	Building	1979
Hyman Heights-Mount Royal Historic District	Hendersonville	District	2001
Kanuga Lake Historic District	Hendersonville	District	1995
King, Otto, House	Hendersonville	Building	2017
King-Waldrop House	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Lenox Park Historic District	Hendersonville	District	2002
Main Street Historic District	Hendersonville	District	1989
Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Hendersonville	District	2006
Meadows, The	Fletcher	Building	1980
Meadows, The (Boundary Decrease)	Fletcher	Building	2019
Mills River Chapel	Mills River	Building	1988
Moore, Arthur W., House	Horse Shoe	Building	2001
Moss-Johnson Farm	Hendersonville	Building	1987
Oakdale Cemetery	Hendersonville	District	2014
Reese House	Hendersonville	Building	1995
Rice, Clough H., House	Hendersonville	Building	2011
Rugby Grange	Fletcher	Building	1987
Samuel James and Jessie McCune Childs House	Hendersonville	Building	2024
Seventh Avenue Depot District	Hendersonville	District	1989
Sewell, Dillard B. and Georgia, House	Penrose	Building	2015
Singletary-Reese-Robinson House	Laurel Park	Building	2010
Smith-Williams-Durham Boarding House	Hendersonville	Building	1989
Stepp's Mill	Hendersonville	Building	2024
Stillwell, Erle, House	Hendersonville	Building	2001
Stillwell, Erle, House II	Hendersonville	Building	2002
Waverly, The	Hendersonville	Building	1989
West Side Historic District	Hendersonville	District	2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Henderson was formed in 1838 (1838-12-15) from Buncombe.

HENDERSON created from BUNCOMBE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,129	10,448	10,281	14,104	18,248	26,049	30,921	36,163	58,580	89,173	116,281

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Carl Sandberg Home National Historic Site	Park unit	7.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

73 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 73 of 73 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aiken Cemetery	35.29566	-82.60817
Andrews Cemetery	35.20897	-82.45022
Barnwell Baptist Church Graveyard	35.44828	-82.31649
Barnwell Family Cemetery	35.43907	-82.32449
Bat Cave Baptist Church Graveyard	35.45062	-82.28918
Bayne Bane Capps Cemetery	35.20595	-82.47181
Berea Baptist Church Graveyard	35.25653	-82.48732
Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery	35.30439	-82.55687
Boylston Baptist Church Graveyard	35.33	-82.64301
Calvary Episcopal Church Graveyard	35.44355	-82.50486
Conner Cemetery	35.4575	-82.29808
Crossroads Baptist Church Cemetery	35.22849	-82.41543
Dana Baptist Church Graveyard	35.33954	-82.3727
Dana United Methodist Church Graveyard	35.33677	-82.37396
Double Springs Cemetery	35.18416	-82.42836
Ebenezer Baptist Church Graveyard	35.35028	-82.43347
Edneyville United Methodist Church Graveyard	35.40422	-82.35472
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery	35.45023	-82.27979
Fair Haven Baptist Church Graveyard	35.34482	-82.42035
Fanning Chapel Methodist Cemetery	35.42046	-82.57343
Forest Lawn Memorial Park	35.32076	-82.4373
Fruitland Cemetery	35.38355	-82.40184
Hill Cemetery	35.46077	-82.29616
Jones Cemetery	35.36754	-82.33155
Jones Cemetery	35.39893	-82.54549
Jones Family Cemetery	35.30224	-82.38533
Justus Cemetery	35.28905	-82.59974
Liberty Baptist Church Graveyard	35.42661	-82.35623
Love Cemetery	35.37314	-82.42838
Macedonia Baptist Church Graveyard	35.25701	-82.36951
McCarson Cemetery	35.34459	-82.50176
Mill Pond Cemetery	35.36695	-82.5234
Mills River Cemetery	35.38288	-82.61734
Mills River Presbyterian Church Cemetery	35.37774	-82.57272
Mills River United Methodist Church Graveyard	35.38438	-82.57664
Moores Grove United Methodist Church Graveyard	35.3489	-82.43183
Mount Gilead Baptist Cemetery	35.41098	-82.57299
Mount Moriah Baptist Church Graveyard	35.39151	-82.33201
Mount Olivet Baptist Church Cemetery	35.23665	-82.47482
Mount Zion Baptist Church Graveyard	35.36819	-82.44523
Mountain Home Baptist Church Graveyard	35.39496	-82.28854
Mountain Page Baptist Church Graveyard	35.21064	-82.36863
Mountain Valley Baptist Church Cemetery	35.21481	-82.49343
Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery	35.22988	-82.42851
Oak Forest Cemetery	35.30814	-82.58556
Oak Grove Baptist Church Graveyard	35.27256	-82.40307
Oakdale Cemetery	35.28395	-82.4297
Oakdale Cemetery	35.31923	-82.47496
Old Beulah Cemetery	35.29622	-82.60817
Orr Cemetery	35.2965	-82.60817
Pace Cemetery	35.21346	-82.46195
Patterson Cemetery	35.25344	-82.55762
Patty's Chapel Cemetery	35.4163	-82.48801
Pittillo Lanning Cemetery	35.39422	-82.39984
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery	35.2885	-82.59976
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	35.27562	-82.49961
Refuge Baptist Church Graveyard	35.32844	-82.37463
Saint John In The Wilderness Episcopal Church Graveyard	35.28252	-82.44338
Saint Matthews Episcopal Church Graveyard	35.36844	-82.47901
Saint Paul Cemetery	35.41316	-82.33672
Seagle Drake Cemetery	35.35546	-82.42917
Sentell Cemetery	35.25967	-82.60609
Sentell Cemetery	35.27539	-82.54678
Shaws Creek Baptist Church Graveyard	35.32301	-82.4985
Shepherd Memorial Park	35.38507	-82.50703
Sitton - Gillespie Cemetery	35.37554	-82.62377
Stepp Round Hill Cemetery	35.33657	-82.34639
Stuart Cemetery	35.40611	-82.63487
Thomas Fletcher Cemetery	35.29701	-82.59429
Union Hill Holiness Baptist Church Graveyard	35.35192	-82.33963
Ward Family Cemetery	35.23085	-82.40506
Whitaker Cemetery	35.38908	-82.6205
Zirconia Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery	35.24634	-82.41375

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

Historical markers

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