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The city was named in honor of former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Leonard Henderson, who lived nearby and was a friend of early settler Lewis Reavis. Henderson was officially chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1841. Prior to the creation of Vance County in 1881, Henderson was located in far eastern Granville ...
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Henderson County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
Henderson County Elevation. Henderson County is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern North Carolina, on the border with South Carolina. The Eastern Continental Divide, which lies along the crest of the Blue Ridge, passes through the county.
Henderson Central Business Historic District is a national historic district located at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 91 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Henderson.
Vance County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,578. [1] Its county seat is Henderson. [2] Vance County comprises the Henderson, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
In the middle 1830s Christopher Memminger, of Charleston, South Carolina, took a tour of Flat Rock in an attempt to find a summer home. Unable to find a home he liked, he purchased land from Charles Baring, one of the more prominent landholders in the area. In 1838 he hired an architect to begin work on a large summer home in the Greek Revival ...
Henderson County faced what many are calling Western North Carolina's worst natural disaster in a lifetime, with public officials and residents scrambling to find safety as the French Broad River ...
Hyman Heights–Mount Royal Historic District is a national historic district located at Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 123 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Hendersonville developed between 1905 and 1954.