Carthage Historic District

Carthage, the county seat of Moore County in the Sandhills, holds a residential neighborhood that runs west from the courthouse square along McReynolds Street, once part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road. Most of its buildings were erected between about 1850 and the start of World War II, and they show a range of styles from Greek Revival and Italianate to Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Craftsman. The district includes the 1898-1900 Carthage Methodist Church, its adjacent cemetery with burials from the early 1850s, and a 1939-40 community building built by the National Youth Administration. Carthage grew on the strength of its role as county seat and on the Tyson and Jones carriage works, which employed skilled workers from the mid 1850s into the twentieth century. The district is regarded as the town's largest and most intact collection of buildings from that growth period, and it is listed for its architecture and its community development.