Richmond Hill Law School Explained

Richmond Hill Law School
Location:North of Richmond Hill on SR 1530, near Richmond Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.2678°N -80.6128°W
Added:October 15, 1970
Refnum:70000483

Richmond Hill Law School is a historic home and law school building located near Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three-bay, "T"-plan, brick building. It has a low hipped roof and deep overhang. It was built as the home and law school of jurist Richmond Mumford Pearson.

Among those who studied at the school were Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson, State Chief Justices William A. Hoke and David Furches, U.S. District Judge Thomas Settle, Congressman William H. H. Cowles, Governors John W. Ellis, Daniel Gould Fowle and Robert B. Glenn,[1] and two-term Mayor of Charlotte, NC, William Johnston. The property is owned by the Yadkin County Historical Society.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=M-12 NC Historical Marker
  2. Web site: J.G. Zehmer and Sherry I. Penney . Richmond Hill Law School . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1970. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-07-01.