Mount Pleasant Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Mount Pleasant's historic district covers 184 properties in an X-shaped area along Main and Franklin Streets, flanked by ridges and gentle hills. It includes residences, three churches, three cemeteries, a small business district and several industries, among them the Kindley and Tuscarora cotton mills and the Miller Lumber Company. The earliest house is the Henderson-Barrier House of 1840, a double-pile Greek temple-form residence. Other notable buildings include the brick Jacob Ludwig House of 1841, the Italianate Heilig-Foil House of 1858, and the Jeremiah Dreher House of 1858, based on a design by Andrew Jackson Downing. Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses reflect growth that followed the development of local industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most houses are frame, while businesses and industries are largely brick. The district shows how a rural piedmont town developed over about a century, and many buildings remain in good condition.