The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was settled in 1844. In 1850, the North Carolina Legislature created the Carolina Female College in Ansonville. The facility was run by and for the daughters of local planters, and served only white women. Sources differ on when the facility closed, but all agree the Civil War was the reason for its closure, in either 1862 or 1867.
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Ansonville is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ansonville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is US Post Office in Wadesboro, 9 miles away.
Ansonville and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Ansonville
How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. US Post Office’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Ansonville?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Ansonville’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.