Croft Historic District is a national

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located near

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. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing structure in the crossroads community of Croft in rural Mecklenburg County. Contributing resources include the S. W. & C. S. Davis General Store (1908), two-story Queen Anne style S. W. Davis House (1903) and flower house (c. 1903), the old Croft School (c. 1890, c. 1912), three warehouses (c. 1910, c. 1925, and c. 1930), and a section of the (former) Atlantic. Tennessee and Ohio Railroad Tracks (1871). It was added to the

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in 1999.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1903 Buildings and structures in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina {{MecklenburgCountyNC-NRHP-stub