{"nrhp_refnum":"99001047","name":"Burgaw Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Cowan St., Fremont St., Dudley St., and Ashe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Burgaw","county":"Pender County","state":"NC","lat":34.55081122550004,"lon":-77.9261663159129,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Burgaw Historic District is a roughly fifty-seven acre historic district in the town of Burgaw, the county seat of Pender County, North Carolina. It contains the original central business district, residential and mixed-use streets, a railroad median strip, and a courthouse square.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its role in the community planning and development of a railroad-founded county seat, laid out by a railroad civil engineer after the railroad donated land. It is also significant for architecture, with commercial buildings from the first third of the twentieth century, varied houses and churches, and a 1934 courthouse that the nomination calls a focal point of the town.","narrative":"Burgaw grew up beside the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which built a depot in the settlement around 1850. When Pender County was created in 1875, the railroad donated land for a town if Burgaw Depot became the county seat. W. H. James, a railroad civil engineer, divided the seventy-three-acre site into blocks and lots with wide streets laid out north-south and east-west, and the town was incorporated in 1879. The district preserves the original central business district of brick commercial buildings from the first third of the twentieth century, along with a range of houses from late Queen Anne cottages to Craftsman bungalows. The courthouse square, with its 1914 Confederate Monument and mature live oaks, forms the town's civic center. The 1934 Georgian Revival courthouse, a Public Works Administration project, anchors the square.","period_of_significance":"C. 1850-1949","architect_builder":"Deitrick, W. H. (architect - courthouse)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.423199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7217/47721714/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001047.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721714","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgaw_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19600624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/pender-county/burgaw-historic-district-99001047/"}