HARNETT COUNTY
Updated 12/31/99
The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office statewide inventory contains information on over 800 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Harnett County.
State grants of $98,000 and federal grants of $35,500 have assisted the James Archibald Campbell House in Buies Creek, the Coats Museum in Coats, the William C. Lee Museum, and the reconstruction of a Civil War era log cabin in Averasboro.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National Register nominations for ten individual listings include plantation houses, an early church, a one-room school house, three fine houses in Dunn, and the home of the founder of Campbell University. The Averasboro Battleground Historic District is expected to be listed in 2000.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided technical assistance to many projects throughout the county such as the James Archibald Campbell House, the Angier Depot, Summer Villa, Summerville Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Lillington, the Dunn Woman's Club, Lebanon Plantation, and Averasboro Battleground.