The Hoke-Rhyne House

The Hoke-Rhyne House The Hoke-Rhyne House, as part of the Laboratory Historic District, was added to The National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2003. D. Childs.

One of the finest surviving ante-bellum structures in Lincoln County, the Hoke-Rhyne House is located on a hilltop overlooking the Laboratory Cotton Mill and the picturesque countryside along the South Fork River. It is a rare example of Greek Revival-style houses of brick construction in the county. The house was built in 1844 by John Hoke, the owner and founder of the Lincoln Cotton Mill - built

in 1819. He died in 1845, shortly after the completion of the house, and it was passed on to his daughter and her husband L. Childs continued to operate the Lincoln Cotton Mill until it burned in 1861. In 1863, the mill site became home to a Confederate pharmaceutical laboratory that provided medicines for the Southern army. The laboratory building stood until around 1886, when it was demolished to make way for the Laboratory Cotton Mill. In 1900, the house was purchased by Daniel E. Rhyne, the leader of industrial and economic progress in Lincoln County during the New South period. A company store, a school, a Methodist church and a mill village of thirty-one houses soon surrounded the Laboratory Mill and the Hoke-Rhyne House. Rhyne also made arrangements to have a telephone line run into Laboratory from Lincolnton. Among D.E. Rhynes other business interests were banking, farming, real estate, mining, and other miscellaneous businesses. He was also known as a great philanthropist. Churches in Gaston, Catawba, Lincoln, Iredell, Mecklenburg, and Guildford counties and Lenoir-Rhyne college were among those who benefited from his generosity. Daniel Efrid Rhyne died on February 25, 1933.

Merry Christmas
12/11/2020

Merry Christmas

12/29/2017
12/04/2017
07/31/2017

Thank you to everyone who attended the Preservation NC tour yesterday. It was wonderful sharing our home with such knowlegable historians!

Found a nice selection of old bottles today while excavating for the pool.1) N.Y.Q. & C.W. L.D. - New York Quinine & Ch...
06/22/2017

Found a nice selection of old bottles today while excavating for the pool.

1) N.Y.Q. & C.W. L.D. - New York Quinine & Chemical Works - Mouth-Blown circa1890-1920

2) Vaseline Cheseborough New York - 1st with screw top - circa 1900 -1920

3) Owens-Illinois amber medicine bottle - circa 1930. (Unidentified congealed goo insde)

4) Bayer Aspirin bottle - circa 1940 -1950

5) Cobalt blue Noxzema bottle with old logo - circa 1940 -1950

Also found half of an old horseshoe, some ancient pliers, and a circa 1960-1970 green army man.

Snow at the Manor
01/08/2017

Snow at the Manor

Christmas 2016
12/06/2016

Christmas 2016

Garage and Shop Painting
11/06/2016

Garage and Shop Painting

Tree removal.
11/06/2016

Tree removal.

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2831 Laboratory Road
Lincolnton, NC
28092

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