MACON COUNTY
Updated 12/31/99
The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office provided assistance on landscaping and an interpretive exhibit at Nequassee Indian Mound. The Historic Preservation Office statewide inventory contains information on over 550 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Macon County.
A municipal architectural survey of the town of Highlands was completed in 1980, and a countywide architectural survey was completed in 1995. Surveys are cooperative local-state projects accomplished with grants and staff assistance from the Historic Preservation Office.
Federal grants of $25,650 have assisted architectural surveys in the county and the town of Highlands.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Fifteen individual properties located across the county and the Satulah Mountain Historic District in Highlands have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided technical restoration assistance to the Pendergrass Store in Franklin, First Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Incarnation at Highlands, Gillespie Chapel, and the Cullasaja Water Power Plant.