New Hill Historic District

New Hill is a small crossroads community in western Wake County, North Carolina, where Old U.S. Highway 1 meets New Hill-Holleman Road. The historic district covers about 282 acres of farmland and pine woods and holds stores, houses, farmsteads, a Gothic Revival Baptist church of about 1888 with its cemetery, and a rail line. The village grew from a mid-nineteenth-century post office and the arrival of the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad, and by the 1880s it had stores, a sawmill, a cider mill and a turpentine distillery. Paving of the highway in 1928 brought motorists to the Roundy motor court and tearoom. Farmsteads with tobacco barns, including three with terra cotta tile siding, reflect the spread of bright leaf tobacco farming. Despite suburban growth nearby, the district keeps its early-to-mid-twentieth-century look and its field patterns. It was listed for its agricultural and architectural significance between 1860 and 1950.