SCOTLAND COUNTY
Updated 12/31/99
The North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office statewide inventory contains information on 122 prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Scotland County.
The county was the subject of a comprehensive architectural survey in 1980 which was funded in part by a federal grant administered through the Historic Preservation Office. Almost three hundred historic structures have been inventoried.
Three federal grants totaling $24,783 have been given for preservation projects in Scotland County. These projects include the restoration of the John Blue House and the Stewart-Hawley-Malloy House, and the Scotland County architectural survey. State grants totaling $118,500 have benefited such projects as the John Blue House, the Gibson Depot, the Gibson Town Facilities, the Gill House, the John Charles MacNeill Birthplace, and Temperance Hall.
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Scotland County has ten individual historic properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, including houses, farms, Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church, and the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society Hall near Wagram.
The Historic Preservation Office has provided technical assistance for the restoration of the John Blue House and the Terry Sanford Birthplace in Laurinburg, as well as for the Mag Blue House near Laurinburg, Temperance Hall near Wagram, the Stewart-Hawley-Malloy House in Stewartsville, and many other buildings throughout the county.