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Site/Object | Year | Location | Significance | Designation |
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To 1760 | ||||
Ridges Mountain | Pre-colonial | Ridges Mountain Road, Asheboro | Native American activity; early settlement; geology; natural history | Heritage Site |
1760-1800 | ||||
1761 | 7392 Howard's Mill Road, Bennett | Colonial travel; Revolutionary War; early statehood commerce | Heritage Site | |
Mill Creek Friends Meeting Cemetery | 1762 | 1871 Mill Creek Road, Ramseur | Early settlement; Quakers | Heritage Site |
Mount Shepherd Pottery Site | 1775-1800 | Mount Shepherd Road Ext., Asheboro | Early settlement; pottery | Landmark |
Buffalo Ford | 1780-1782 | Deep River at Hinshaw Town Road, Coleridge | Revolutionary War; early travel | Heritage Site |
Harmon Cox Mill | 1780-1782 | 2648 NC Hwy 22 South, Ramseur | Quakers; Revolutionary War; mill sites | Heritage Site |
Faith Rock | 1782 | 216 W. Main St., Franklinville | Revolutionary War; geology, natural history | Landmark |
Col. Andrew Balfour Cemetery | 1782 | 2421 Doul Mountain Road, Asheboro | Revolutionary War | Landmark |
William Coltrane House | 1775-1800 | 1184 Steel Road, Randleman | Historic home; oldest frame house in county | Landmark |
McMasters Cemetery | 1787 | 2434 Soapstone Road, Staley | Early settlement | Heritage Site |
Richland Lutheran Church & Cemetery | 1789 | 7661 Richland Church Road, Liberty | Early settlement; German immigrants | Heritage Site |
Billy Trogdon Cemetery | 1790 | Pleasant Cross Road, Franklinville | Early settlement | Heritage Site |
1800-1865 | ||||
Sandy Creek Primitive Baptist Church | 1802 | 785 Sandy Creek Church Road, Liberty | Earliest Baptist church in county; mother church of Southern Baptist denomination | Landmark |
Randolph County Weights & Measures | 1804 | 145 Worth Street, Asheboro | Early artifact of county government | Heritage Object |
Jeduthan/Jesse Harper House | ca. 1815 | 4033 Red Fox Road, Trinity | Georgian-Federal Piedmont farmhouse | Landmark |
Old Asheboro Cemetery | 1827 | 160 W. Salisbury Street, Asheboro | Primary Asheboro cemetery for 150 years | Heritage Site |
Franklinsville Manufacturing Company | 1838 | 1306 Andrew Hunter Road, Franklinville | Textile industry; first weaving mill, brick mill and corporation in county | Landmark |
1838 Courthouse Belfry Bell | 1838 | 145 Worth Street, Asheboro | Early artifact of county government | Heritage Object |
Asheborough Female Academy | 1839 | 1226 S. Park Street, Asheboro | First formal school in Asheboro | Landmark |
Cedar Falls Manufacturing Company | 1848 | 1120 Wicker-Lovell Road and 1265 Wicker Lovell Road, Randleman | First cotton textile factory in Randolph County | Landmark |
Austin Lawrence House | 1848 | 2385 Cedar Falls Road, Franklinville | Historic home; textile mill manager's house | Landmark |
Hanks Masonic Lodge | 1850 | 157 W. Main Street, Franklinville | First Masonic lodge in county | Landmark |
Trinity Museum/Winslow House | 1855 | 7254 NC Hwy 62, Trinity | Well-preserved antebellum home | Landmark |
Trinity Cemetery | 1859 | Rockford Dr., Trinity NC | Resting place of Trinity College leaders and members of the Trinity community. | Heritage Site |
Marmaduke Robins Law Office | ca. 1860 | 131 N. Main St. Asheboro | Only remaining example of early commercial buildings on courthouse square | Landmark |
Randolph Hornets Flag | 1861 | 201 Worth Street, Asheboro | Hand-crafted flag carried by Randolph County company in Civil War | Heritage Object |
1865-1900 | ||||
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church | 1879 | 401 High Point St., Randleman | Historic church; oldest brick church in county; built by mill owners; interior designed by Jules Koerner | Landmark |
Strieby Church, Cemetery & School | ca. 1880 | 5480 Strieby Church Road, Asheboro | Influential African American community in southwestern part of county; home of African American Quaker Miles Lassiter and poet, teacher and minister the Rev. Islay Walden. | Heritage Site |
Liberty Train Depot | ca. 1885 | 167 W. Swannanoa Avenue, Liberty | Well preserved railway depot; one of the last railroad structures in county | Heritage Site |
Patterson Cottage Museum | 1885 | 221 S. Fayetteville St., Liberty | Historic home | Heritage Site |
Randolph County Corporate Seal | ca. 1885 | 725 McDowell Road, Asheboro | Artifact of origin of current form of county government | Heritage Object |
The Gatekeeper's House | 1888 | 312 Lanier Avenue, Asheboro | Historic home; last survivor of houses built by British immigrants Fisher, Wainman and Winn. | Landmark |
Charles H. Phillips House | ca. 1850s-ca. 1890s | 1482 Fuller Mill Road, Thomasville | Highly original Queen Anne style residence. | Landmark |
1900-1950 | ||||
Odd Fellows Cemetery | ca. 1900 | 1100-1200 Block, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Asheboro | African American cemetery developed by fraternal organization | Heritage Site |
Randolph County Courthouse | 1909 | 145 Worth Street, Asheboro | Randolph County's 7th courthouse | Landmark |
Acme-McCrary Hosiery Mills | 1909 | 159 North Street, Asheboro | Intact early to mid-20th century factory buildings of Asheboro's most significant manufacturing concern. | Landmark |
Pisgah Covered Bridge | 1911 | 6925 Pisgah Covered Bridge Road, Asheboro | Only remaining covered bridge in county, and one of two in North Carolina | Landmark |
Walter A. Bunch Jr. House | 1919 | 111. S. Main Street, Asheboro | Colonial Revival house with Craftsman influence built for Walter A. Bunch Jr, who would become mayor of Asheboro. | Landmark |
John Wesley's Stand | 1921 | 2921 Old County Farm Road, Sophia | County's last remaining example of open air tabernacle or brush arbor | Landmark |
County Rest Home | 1922 | 2210 S. Fayetteville St., Asheboro | Oldest example of county social welfare services | Landmark |
Henry Moring Robins House | 1924 | 117 S. Main St., Asheboro | Colonial revival house with Craftsman influence built for Henry Robins, a former mayor of Asheboro. | Landmark |
Parkers Mill Bridge | 1924 | 4850 Jackson Creek Road, Denton | One of state's first reinforced concrete arched bridges | Heritage Site |
McCrary Hosiery Mill No. 2/Parks Hosiery Mill | ca. 1925, 1937 | 170 N. Church St., Asheboro | One of 32 hosiery mill in U.S. that manufactured full-fashioned hosiery using DuPont nylon fiber | Landmark |
Petty Enterprises | 1925, 1949 | 311 Branson Mill Road, Randleman | Childhood home and racing shop of NASCAR legend Richard Petty | Landmark |
Sunset Theatre | 1929 | 234 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro | Spanish Colonial Revival style theatre; first purpose-built movie theatre in Asheboro | Landmark |
Charles W. McCrary House | 1929 | 240 Worth Street, Asheboro | Classical Revival home of leading industrialist | Landmark |
J. Frank McCrary House | 1933 | 232 Worth Street, Asheboro | Tudor Revival home of former Asheboro mayor | Landmark |
Raymond Cox Mill | ca. 1935 | 227 Mill Creek Road, Ramseur | Last surviving grist mill in county; mill site since colonial times. | Heritage Site |
Asheboro Municipal Buildling | 1938 | 146 N. Church Street, Asheboro | City's foremost example of Art Deco design | Landmark |
Acme-McCrary & Sapona Recreation Center | 1949 | 148 North Street, Asheboro | Recreation center for Acme-McCrary employees designed in Art Moderne style. | Landmark |
1950-present | ||||
Randolph High School | 1951 | 811 S. Kirkman Street, Liberty | High school serving African American students in the last years of segregatiion | Heritage Site |
Kennedy Rocker | 1953 | 201 Worth Street, Asheboro | Locally-produced rocking chair made iconic by President John F. Kennedy | Heritage Object |
Randolph Savings and Loan Branch Bank | 1963 | 115 S. Fayetteville St., Asheboro | Iconic Modernist building in downtown Asheboro | Landmark |
Trinity College Memorial Gazebo and Bell | 1984 | NC 62 and Trinity College Road, Trinity, NC | Memorial site encompasses artifacts from Trinity College, precursor to Duke University | Heritage Site |