Penderlea Homesteads 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 ...

located near Willard,

Pender County, North Carolina Pender County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,203. Its county seat is Burgaw. Pender County is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The county ...

. The district encompasses 186 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and nine contributing structures in a rural section of Pender County. The district includes a collection of community buildings and houses constructed as part of the Penderlea Homesteads

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project. It includes 88 one-story, frame dwellings constructed as part of the original homestead project. Penderlea was the first experimental farm-city colony established by the United States government through the

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’s Division of Subsistence Homesteads. It was listed on the

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in 2013.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Art Deco architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Pender County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Pender County, North Carolina New Deal in North Carolina {{PenderCountyNC-NRHP-stub