Salisbury Street Historic District

Salisbury Street runs southwest from downtown Mocksville and holds a row of houses built mostly between the late 1820s and World War II. The early village road was the Salisbury Road, and the street grew as a semi-suburban residential area after Davie County's seat was laid out in 1839 to the northeast. The brick former Mocksville Academy, chartered in 1827 with its lot acquired in 1828, is a Federal style building that served as a school for nearly half a century. The Howell-Brown-Sanford House, begun about 1850 for merchant Stephen Lewis Howell, shows Greek Revival form with a double-tiered porch added about 1870. Charles F. Meroney's Queen Anne house, built about 1895 by James and Samuel Call, is one of the largest in the district. Craftsman bungalows from the 1920s and 1930s, including the Hugh A. Sanford House of 1921, complete the sequence. The district is noted for its tree cover of large white oaks, magnolias and cedars.