Yadkin County Courthouse in Yadkinville, North Carolina

Oct 29, 2016 Sat0

Laurie and I like riding our Gold Wing motorcycle. But it is easy to get into a rut and just ride the same roads. So to force ourselves to ride to places we would not normally visit we made a goal to visit and photograph all 100 North Carolina courthouses within 1 year.

As usual, we got a little behind. We started in July 2015 and finished 99 out of 100 by June 2018. The last courthouse was in our home county of Wake and it took us until Feb 2021 to get that final one. But we made it! This blog is about one of those visits.

Many NC courthouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The nomination form has some interesting facts about the various courthouse styles over the years.

Courthouse Information

I could not find any information about this courthouse and it looked like a modern structure.

County Information

The North Carolina History Project lists the following information for this county:

The early Native Americans of the Yadkin Region were the Tutelo and Saponi. These tribes were were relatively peaceful, and they devoted their energies to agriculture, hunting, and fishing. Numerous artifacts have been discovered, particularly arrowheads and hunting tools along the lower part of the present county. In 1957, as the Department of Transportation constructed the U.S. Highway 421, a burial mound was uncovered, and several skeletons were unearthed by Stanley South, an archaeologist of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History. South dated the bones, and found that they were buried between 1550 and 1600.
Morgan Byran and George Forbush were the first, known white men to inhabit present-day Yadkin County in 1748. Both men brought their families and settled on the banks of the Deep Creek. In the 1750s, Squire Boone brought his family to the Yadkin valley region, and one of his sons, Daniel Boone, although born in Pennsylvania, resided in Yadkin periodically throughout his adult life. Throughout the rest of the eighteenth century many others established farms, and a hundred years later, the region's population exceeded 8,000 residents.
Located on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Yadkin was established from Surry County in the middle of the nineteenth century. The county and its seat of government, Yakdinville, which was incorporated in 1857, were both named after the Yadkin River. In 1673, Abraham Wood, a trader from Virginia, sponsored a journey into the North Carolina colony. One of the explorers, Gabriel Arthur, reported that the party had made their way into Yattken Town on June 18, 1673. This was the first time a white man had referred to the area as "Yattken" and it later evolved into the modern term of Yadkin. "Yattken" emerged from the Siouan Indian language, and although the true root is unknown to modern linguists, some speculate that the word may mean "big trees" or "place of big trees."
Yadkin hosts several cultural events, and other historic buildings and landmarks exist in the county. Richmond Hill is the most famous historic structure in the county. Once the residence of Supreme Court Chief Justice Richmond Pearson, Richmond Hill remains a historic park. In addition to the Richmond Hill, the Tulbert House, the Deep Creek Friends Meeting Cemetery, and the Bourman Mill Dam are all eighteenth century edifices that still stand in the county. The Yadkin Arts Council and the Charles Bruce Davis Museum of Art, History, and Science are the county's vital cultural institutions. Yadkin's festivals include the Boonville Heritage Days Festival, the annual Yadkin Magic Show, the Yadkinville Harvest Festival, and a popular musical event known as the Yadkinville Bluegrass Contest and Fiddler's Convention.