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History
Don’t miss the Lincoln County Historical Association to learn
everything there is to know about our area. The association
encourages public interest in local history, preserves documents and
promotes the history of Lincolnton and Lincoln County, North Carolina.
A genealogy library and research office is open Thursday afternoons
and Saturday.

The association works with the Lincoln County Historic Properties
Commission to preserve the built environment by working with
owners of historic properties to designate their homes as local historic
landmarks, facilitate restoration and promote their preservation efforts.
The association also coordinates tours of privately owned historic
properties and cemeteries, and strives to educate local officials, local
historians and the general public about historic preservation. Lincoln
County retains three 18th century residences – Vesuvius Furnace
(1792), Andrew Loretz House (1793), and Woodside (1798) – and many
historic structures from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Events
Lincolnton’s free summertime Alive After Five concerts take place in
the Lincolnton Court Square on the last Thursday of May, June, July
and August.

Come out May through September to Denver’s Rescue Squad Park for
music. In 2024, touring Fleetwood Mac tribute band “Tell Me Lies” will
perform in March and the swinging sound of The Bruce Long Orchestra another series of free concerts, Music in the Park, sponsored by the
Rotary Club of Denver/Lake Norman.
will bring the “big band era” to Lincoln County in May. Season members
of the association enjoy the variety of concerts performed and gain In the summer, enjoy the Bluegrass Bash with plenty of bands, food
entry to concerts at reciprocal venues in Gaston, Iredell and Stanly trucks and dancing in the street. If you’re a Bluegrass fan, all the better.
counties. Individual tickets are also available. lincolnconcerts.org If you think you’re not, the Bash will change your mind.

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