Anson County Courthouse in Wadesboro, North Carolina

Mar 25, 2016 Fri0Confederate Statues

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 the construction of the courthouse.




County Information


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

Formed out of the western section of Bladen County, Anson County was founded in 1750. The county's namesake is George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, the noted British admiral who circumnavigated the globe and oversaw the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War.

Analogous to its parent county, Bladen, Anson County was initially a large territory. Within three years, part of the northern boundary became Rowan County, and in the western boundary became Mecklenburg County. During the Revolutionary War, the remaining northern boundary was turned into Montgomery County, and finally in 1842, portions of southeast Mecklenburg County and western Anson County combined to form Union County. Many North Carolina counties undergo similar boundary changes to Anson, most notably Hyde County.

There are many important townships in Anson County. Wadesboro, the county seat, is not only the largest town, but also the place where future president Andrew Jackson was issued his license to practice law. Other towns include Ansonville, Lilesville, McFarlan, Morven, Peachland, and Polkton.

Many notables were either born or raised in Anson County. Allan McFarland, the namesake of McFarlan, was the president of the Cheraw an Salisbury Railroad. John Grady, an NC General Assembly member in 1836, and Susan Braswell, one of the first female mayors of North Carolina, hail from McFarlan. Dr. Parks Turner Beeman, one of the first physicians that fed his fever patients instead of starving them, was from Peachland. Harllee Branch Sr., a city editor for the Atlanta Journal and chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, called Polkton home.

Anson County is mostly rural, and despite being in the Piedmont region, its geography is rather flat. The county can be considered a sanctuary for nature lovers though, as the Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge is located just south of Ansonville. In fact, the Pee Dee River runs throughout the county, and most towns integrate the river with their economy.






Our Experience


Several things about this courthouse stood out to me. The second and third photos below are of a water fountain. There are two water bowls in the monument base but only one of them has the water spout and hardware. It is easy to assume that in years past there were two working water fountains with one labeled White and the other Colored.

I liked the inscription on the war dead monument "They gave their today For our Tomorrow." There is a time capsule to be opened in 2049. I might be alive to check that out in the future.

There was a very interesting monument to the women of the Confederacy and how they sent more than six hundred thousand soldiers to the front. You may have to click on the photo a couple of times to get a much larger version of the photo if you want to read the inscription.

And last Laurie did not see any of the courthouse or monuments as she was busy talking to Brenda, Cathy and Patsy at Brenda's Boutique & Consignment. They filled her on some local highlights.

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Anson County Courthouse in Wadesboro, North Carolina
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