Burton House

An old two-story wooden house with a front porch and multiple windows, surrounded by trees and a grassy yard in black and white.

The Burton House once stood in what’s now known as Governor’s Island in Denver, NC.

An article on the Burton Family and Burton Place in Lincoln County, NC June 20, 2024, Lake Norman Citizen, by Darryl Saunders

Additional Resources

https://findingaids.davidson.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/29130

https://www.loc.gov/item/2017888522/

Great biographical info: https://www.carolana.com/NC/Counties/lincoln_county_nc.html

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00111/

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/burton-robert

https://lincolncountyhistory.com/national-registry-of-historic-places/

Black and white photo of an old wooden house with a front porch supported by four columns, with a brick foundation and steps leading up to the porch, surrounded by trees and plants.
Old wooden fireplace with a decorative mantel and a mirror or picture frame on top, in a rustic room with wooden paneled walls.
A staircase with a wooden railing and some decorative ironwork underneath it, with numerous jars filled with various substances placed on the floor beneath the stairs.
An old, abandoned house made of bricks with boarded-up windows and a broken roof, partially obscured by a large, leafless tree.

Photography by Frances Benjamin Johnston.