Bald Creek Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

within the community of Bald Creek located about ten miles west of Burnsville,

Yancey County, North Carolina Yancey County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,470. Its county seat is Burnsville. This land was inhabited by the Cherokee prior to European settlement, as was much of the S ...

.''Bald Creek, NC,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1939 (1991 rev.) The district encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in the Bald Creek community. The district includes notable examples of

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and Rustic Revival style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the C.W. Burton House (c. 1900), Burton-Howell House (c. 1930),

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

supported Bald Creek Elementary School and Gymnasium (1938), Bald Creek United Methodist Church (1951-1955), Wilson House (c. 1930), and Glenn Proffitt House (c. 1920). It was listed on the

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in 2009.

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Works Progress Administration in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Yancey County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Yancey County, North Carolina {{YanceyCountyNC-NRHP-stub