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north Carolina

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118 Barbara 11 Davidson STREET III NUMBER

Route 4 Box 295 A Cln',

COURTHOUSE,

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VICINITY OF Dool CODE

097

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North Carolina 28115

STATE

North Carolina

The Road

fore whi vious thes

in the rural

PERIOD

The mod and

OF SIGNIFICANCE

CRITERIA ASSESSMENT

C The Falls-Hobbs House Greek

accommodate the

~~ __ NATIONAL

IP~DUS1RY

_'f'NENTION

BUI

in-o a surpr which reflect

to

HISTonlCAL BACKGHUUND

l.n the are

Township House is in Davidson Townsh

1868, and thus the old William Fal also

rved only term be

1 dated

Fal1stown postmaste on

The

Jr., John L Department of the

Corbitt State o

ring

6 1832 le ft othe dut 22 1826,

ACREAGE OF NOMINATED DDI"'D&::DTV __ --"-'~"'--, ___ _

UTM RHERE:NCIES

All of 24

The prope be

the land that remains

o

with the house

Townsh

the position

Ie

1

Furthermore 1s-Hobb,

house o

the age of He

d. 15

E vnn the

somewhat confused lla who had a10m K.

Rale North ina

3

outlined in red on map

surround 1

aOA

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVt-\TION Al\ID RECREATION ICE

Falls-Hobbs House

ITEM NUM R 8

Historical

Simonton eventual Fall Y

(Cont'd)

Robe. t • S . D. Hobbs 1 ne

the prope

Iredell

the mother

1 War and line William who 1

thE~ old moved in Edwin Falls in the T;lar romantic de who led the

death of Edwin Falls in the 1840s and 1871 when Hobbs local tradition believe that Falls ( than the

killed

t major

When R. F.

thus the pre

oued) lived i

Knox Simonton into the war.

th of the

and

Afte M D Hobbs in 1899 23 on January 4, 1904 ments of Hobbs' wil January 18 tained posse s four years the house to brother Avery L since the death of his father

in h

the house to H. Hobbs on 1 1871 of Hobb

the land once owned fi years

House

house and

In 1925 L~ and wife Verna K the house to the Catawba Th company and all of even-

of the ies along the Catawba River tha.t were later to be the vlsters of "Lake Norman. The

House on Cornelius Creek (forme Lamberts Creek) became lakefront property and vlh-ile Duke POvler retained right to the land the house was leased to tenants who Id all r to the structure itself used it as a summer home

Duke Power continued to own the land and in 1969 transferred title to its holding subs \I the cent Land Timber of South Carol of land this company now re with Barbara H Davidson who the house a home.

FHR-~8-~ OOA ( 1/7

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE lOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE

Fal

11

ITEM NUM R 9 2

Bib (Cont

Fall ion

I 11

Keeve M. tennial Commie

Powell North

ROB

ROvlan

Tre

Deeds

Unite Sate film of

Settlement

tt

Ie' Re

cords tate Arch

Iredell Bicen-

1 1 The Univers of

USA

o

o North Carol Arch

of Pos tere 1789-1929 Hicro-

FHR~8~ 300/-\ (11/78)

UNTTED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER OR HERITAGE CONSERVATIOh\j AND RECREATION SERVICE

Fal ~Hobb

1

NUMBER 9

two IFalls acre in 1779. One of the earlier afte Deed

Sal Deed county Courthouse hereinafter ited Rowan County

note from in Falls-Hobbs House File Preservation Se tion as Falls-Hobbs House

architec

hereinafter cited

deset'

Keever

ion

FOOTNOTES

for Iredell Archaeolc 6y

Rale »here

Pi

taken from --~----~~----~-~----

vII fe to see Records 0

volutionary folio 2 State

1 of the al re in Appointments here r cited

Is is 1 ted he 16

Galbraith see deed from Galbraith in Rowan Deed Book p. 78 For

of North Carol Treasurer' and Comptroller's rs XV 88 folio 4; and XII 17 folios 2 4; and 33,

post off for the 1

State Archive

Re-

time was

of Raleigh

FHR~8- OOA C11/ )

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE I HERITAGE CONSERVATION At~D RECREATION

ITEM NUM

Footnote

p

rs

1

of here son and

Iredell

1

took ove

in ~on

9

North Carolina

t Off Records, 18

(ed )

For

Books Off Will

t Office Records, 24-182 p 1 1837

11

PAGE 4

Iredell 1

North

Court Iredell cited

and 1832-1929 396 John

157 161-162 163 216 221 and N C Gove

18

21 For h

FrIR~8-" 300A (11/78)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERI HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE

Falls-Hobbs House

Con t 'd

will of Robert imonton R Will Book 2 p. 19. 0 Keeve

1824 Iredell

of Falls-Hobbs House to L. Cros researcher, in House File hereinafter cited Davidson Ie

21 Deed Book 5 p 1

2 Deed Book 1 p. 568 Book 4 p 284 and Book 7, p 530v

11 County Deed Book , p. 75

24 Irede

Iredell

26Iredell

2

Irede

29 Iredel

searcher v inte

Book 30 p

31

Book 78

Book

with

Book p~

Book 1

1

12, 19, 1980