About
The Yadkin College Historic District preserves the 125-acre village that grew around Yadkin College, a Methodist Protestant school that opened in 1856, became coeducational in 1878 and closed in 1924. The 1856 college building, an 1886 church, 19th-century houses and the village cemetery survive.
Listed on the National Register on February 25, 1988, the district has 38 contributing buildings, four sites and five structures. Along with the 1856 college building it includes one antebellum house, 11 houses from about 1870-1890, the Yadkin College Methodist Protestant Church (1886), the Yadkin College Cemetery, and the sites of the 1881 college building, a post office, blacksmith shop and jail. State highway marker K-24 on US 64 east of the Yadkin River points to the college building.
Details
- Address
- North and south sides of SR 1194, west of SR 1436, Yadkin College, NC, Yadkin College, NC
- Town
- Yadkin College
- College opened
- 1856
- College closed
- 1924
- NRHP listed
- February 25, 1988 (ref. 88000165)
- Area
- 125 acres
- State marker
- K-24 (1941)
Sources
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