{"nrhp_refnum":"89001854","name":"Southwest Historic District","other_names":["Waltons Store Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 53 and SR 1217","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltons Store","county":"Onslow County","state":"NC","lat":34.74143329900005,"lon":-77.50530920709446,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Education","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads community district at Waltons Store in central Onslow County, North Carolina, along NC Highway 53 and State Road 1217. It includes a church, a school, two cemeteries and three Walton family farmsteads, with buildings dating from the second quarter of the 19th century to the early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant under criteria A and C for architecture, religion, education and agriculture. Southwest Primitive Baptist Church is the oldest church still standing in the county and ranks among the oldest Primitive Baptist churches in the state. The 1913 school and the Walton farmhouses and outbuildings are also of architectural interest.","narrative":"Southwest Historic District is a rural crossroads community in central Onslow County, North Carolina, centered on NC Highway 53. It contains a church, a school, two cemeteries and three farmsteads of the Walton family, with 16 contributing and 4 noncontributing resources. The oldest building is Southwest Primitive Baptist Church, probably built in the second quarter of the 19th century on a site used by Baptists since at least 1786. It is the oldest surviving church in the county. Southwest School, built about 1913, is a well-preserved two-room rural schoolhouse. The Walton farmsteads, built between about 1905 and 1913, include a late Victorian side-hall house, a two-story center-hall I-house and a coastal plain cottage, along with barns, smokehouses and other outbuildings. The community formed after the Civil War and once had a turpentine distillery, stores, a grist mill and a post office. The district was listed for its architecture and its ties to religion, education and agriculture, with a period of significance through 1938.","period_of_significance":"2nd quarter 19th C. - 1938","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"I house, coastal plain cottage, late Victorian millwork","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The school is used by a present-day congregation, and the church has a small congregation. The Elijah Walton House has had its rear breezeway enclosed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.934652-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/97/7182/47718297/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001854.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718297","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Historic_District_(Waltons_Store,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/onslow-county/southwest-historic-district-89001854/"}