Stonewall Jackson Training School Historic District

Along a rock-studded ridge near Concord sits the campus of the Stonewall Jackson Training School, built for North Carolina's first juvenile corrections facility. About fifty school and farm buildings make up the district, most erected between 1909 and 1930 to designs by Charlotte architect Louis H. Asbury. His Colonial Revival work includes the Ionic-porticoed Administration Building, the Roth Industrial Building and a set of identical brick cottages, along with a stone chapel and footbridge with a Gothic flavor. Later additions include a 1930s trades building, infirmary, gymnasium and pool, plus a dairy and farm complex among the finest early twentieth century farm structures in Cabarrus County. The campus was listed for what it shows about social history: the move away from jailing young offenders with adult criminals toward vocational training and rehabilitation, championed by Concord editor James P. Cook. Its architecture, remarkably unified, was a further reason for recognition.