Historical & Cultural Landmarks
Huntersville is home to more than 30 historic and cultural landmarks, which includes churches, homesteads and schools. Landmarks in Huntersville date back to the 1700s and 1800s. View a map of Huntersville's historic landmarks and plan your next historic adventure.
More Local History
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission provides a driving tour of the history of North Mecklenburg County. The towns of Huntersville, Davidson and Cornelius all have their own tour routes that can be incorporated with the regional tour.
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Agriculture Education Buildings
The Agricultural Education buildings at Huntersville and Long Creek Elementary Schools were both built in 1938.
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Alexander House
The Charles and Laura Alexander House was constructed ca. 1880, during a period of factory growth in Huntersville.
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Bethesda Schoolhouse
Bethesda Schoolhouse built circa 1898 stands as a memorial to the African American educational system in Mecklenburg County.
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Blythe Homestead
Blythe Homestead possesses special significance as it is an intact homestead dating back to the land acquisition by Samuel Blythe in 1772.
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Caldwell Station School
The Caldwell Station School is a well preserved example of early 20th century rural school architecture in Mecklenburg County.
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Cedar Grove
Cedar Grove is one of the premier Greek Revival homes remaining in Mecklenburg County and the Piedmont Region.
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Commercial Row Of Four Buildings (100, 102,104, & 106 Main Street)
The building at 100 Main Street is a good example of the location of early banks at important intersections as well as the use of the classical style to draw customers.
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Erwin-Oehler House and Acreage
The Erwin-Oehler House is a reminder of the agricultural economy that shaped life in largely rural nineteenth-century Mecklenburg County.
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Holly Bend
Robert Davidson built Holly Bend (called Hollywood in the twentieth century) between 1795 and 1800 on 420 acres which his father, John Davidson (early settler and revolutionary war figure of Mecklenburg), gave him in 1795.
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Hopewell Presbyterian Church
Hopewell Presbyterian Church was established in 1762. Its origins, however, go back to the late 1740’s or early 1750’s.
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Hugh Torance House & Store
The historic Hugh Torance House and Store is North Carolina's oldest surviving store and one of Mecklenburg County’s few surviving 18th-century structures.
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Huntersville Town Jail
The ca. 1935 Huntersville Town Jail is the oldest surviving municipal building in Huntersville, and reflects the municipal development of the (then) relatively young town.
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Huntersville School #2
Huntersville School #2, located at 508 Dellwood Drive, known as “the Little School” by former students and neighbors, is one of six of surviving Rosenwald schools in Mecklenburg County. Rosenwald Schools were not only a symbol of resistance to segregation, but also a grassroots effort to challenge Jim Crow laws and white supremacy.
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Ingleside
Local tradition holds that home was known as Scottish for “fireside,” which was erected during the years immediately following the Civil War.
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Latta Place
The 52 acre plantation offers a very personal glimpse into the life of merchant (James Latta) and his family in rural Mecklenburg County in the early days of our republic.
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Lawing Farmhouse
The Harry C. Lawing House is important because it is an early twentieth century rural farmhouse that still retains a good degree of its original integrity.
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McAuley Road Farmland
The farmland represents the best preserved and most intact rural/agricultural landscape in Mecklenburg County
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McCoy Farmhouse
The Albert McCoy Farm is a physical reminder of the rural landscape of Mecklenburg County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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McElroy House
The Samuel J. McElroy House is among the finest and most intact of a collection of vernacular Victorian, two-story, T-shaped farmhouses to appear in Mecklenburg County (including five along Beatties Ford Road) after the Civil War.
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Oak Lawn
The traditional building date for Benjamin Wilson Davidson's house, later called Oak Lawn, is 1818, the year Davidson married Elizabeth (Betsy) Latta.
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Osborne House
William and Cora Osborne House (c. 1890) is representative of the two-story frame I-houses built in rural Mecklenburg County in the late 1800's and is reflective of the robust cotton economy that characterized Mecklenburg County during those years.
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Ranson House
The Ranson House was built by William Joseph Ranson and Ellen Hunter Ranson, descendants of two of the most important and influential local farming families that were responsible for the creation and development of the town of Huntersville.
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Rural Hill
The Rural Hill plantation contains many historic buildings and sites, including the kitchen (now modified into a modern residence), the ruin of the main house (destroyed by fire in 1886), a smokehouse, ash house, well house, crib, grainery, two former schoolhouses, and a family cemetery
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is the second oldest church of that denomination in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and was an outgrowth of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the oldest Episcopal congregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
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Torrance Mill
Torrance Mill is the most imposing ruin of an antebellum mill which survives in Mecklenburg County.
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Torrence-Lytle School
The Torrence-Lytle School represented the first opportunity for African-American residents of North Mecklenburg County to attend a public high school in the region where they lived.
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Washam Farm
The Jesse and Mary K. Washam Farm is a tangible reminder of the last prosperous decades of Mecklenburg County’s agrarian economy, before regional and nation-wide depressions effectively ended the reign of King Cotton and the small farmer in the South.
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Wilson House & Farm
The Tomlinson-Wilson House was once part of a large farm that consisted of at least 186 acres. Although there are no extant documents that authenticate the date of the house, the accepted local history about the house is that it was built in the early 1840s.