Falkland Historic District

Falkland grew from a plantation-era landing on the Tar River into a small crossroads town, and its built fabric spans the period from about 1859 to 1960. The oldest dated building is the Dr. Peyton Hopkins Mayo House, a Greek Revival house with Italianate elements that Dr. Mayo, a physician, built after moving to the town around 1859. Houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include Queen Anne dwellings such as the Sellers Mark Crisp House, c. 1905, with shingled gables and a wraparound porch. Commercial buildings cluster at the NC 43 and NC 222 junction, including brick stores built largely after World War II in earlier designs. The Falkland Presbyterian Church, organized in 1892 and rebuilt in 1923, is the district's only historic church. The district is significant for the concentration of these buildings, which together show how a river trading town became a residential community.