Lucama Municipal Historic District

Lucama is a small railroad town set among farmland in southwestern Wilson County, and its historic district preserves most of the town's buildings from before 1930. The district takes in 65 parcels around Black Creek Road and Goldsboro, Main, and North Railroad streets. A small commercial area clusters where the railroad meets Main Street, with two-story frame stores from about 1890, frame saloons, brick stores with broad arched facades, and the board-and-batten depot of about 1905, which was moved and remodeled in 1974. Most of the district is residential, with one- and two-story frame houses built from 1887 into the 1920s in Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow styles. A frame Methodist church of about 1915 also stands in the district. The town was incorporated in 1889 along the Fayetteville Branch of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Because the Depression slowed growth and little was built until the late 1940s, much of the early architecture remains, and about 80 percent of the structures contribute to the district's character.