Lexington, North Carolina Lexington, North Carolina Lexington NC Location in Davidson County and the state of North Carolina Location in Davidson County and the state of North Carolina Coordinates: 35 49 0 N 80 15 31 WCoordinates: 35 49 0 N 80 15 31 W State North Carolina Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) Lexington is the governmental center of county of Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 18,931. It is positioned in central North Carolina, 20 miles (32 km) south of Winston-Salem.
Lexington is part of the Piedmont Triad region of the state.
Lexington, Thomasville, and the non-urban areas encircling them are slowly developing as residentiary bedroom communities for close-by cities such as Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point.
William Rainey Holt assembled Lexington's earliest home, The Homestead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Lexington region was at least sparsely settled by Europeans in 1775.
The pioneer named their improve with respect to Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the first skirmish of the American Revolutionary War.
Lexington was incorporated as a town/city in 1828.
Silver Hill Mine, positioned a several miles south of Lexington, opened in 1838, and was the first operating silver mine in the country. The earliest surviving home in Lexington is The Homestead, assembled by Dr.
Following the war, Holt spent an increasing amount of time at his plantation Linwood, positioned southwest of Lexington, where he directed a scientific farm on his 1,600 acres (6.5 km2).
As president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, Holt was among the first to introduce purebred breeds of livestock to the state. In addition to The Homestead, the Erlanger Mill Village Historic District, First Reformed Church, Grace Episcopal Church, Grimes Brothers Mill, Grimes School, Hedrick's Grove Reformed Church, Junior Order United American Mechanics National Orphans Home, Lexington Memorial Hospital, Lexington Residential Historic District, Old Davidson County Courthouse, Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery, Henry Shoaf Farm, Uptown Lexington Historic District, and John Henry Welborn House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Pigs in the City and the Lexington Barbecue Festival bring in tourists from all over the country.
Main article: Lexington Barbecue Festival Lexington calls itself the "Barbecue Capital of the World". Since 1984, the town/city has hosted the Lexington Barbecue Festival, one of the biggest street celebrations in North Carolina.
As of 2003, the town/city has over twenty barbecue restaurants, an average of more than one per thousand residents.
In 2012, US News and World Report ranked Lexington as #4 on its list of the best metros/cities for barbecue. The most distinguishing feature of the "Lexington Barbecue Sandwich" is the inclusion of red slaw (sometimes called "barbecue slaw").
"Pigs in the City" is a enhance art initiative coordinated by Uptown Lexington, Inc., a non-profit organization created to revitalize the downtown (locally called "uptown") region of Lexington. People pay commissions to artists to decorate life-sized sculptures of pigs, which was installed throughout the city.
Pigs in the City began in 2003, and the event drew more than 40,000 visitors from all over the state in its first year. The cost to "sponsor" one of the 20 pigs on display was $1,000 amid the first exhibition, which paid for the initiative. Since 2006, it has been established as an annual event. The second biggest lake in North Carolina, High Rock Lake is positioned a several miles south of Lexington.
High Rock Lake has long been considered one of the best fishing lakes of North Carolina. It is the site of the Bassmaster Tournaments, including the Bassmaster Classic in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2007 and incessantly is used for other angling competitions.
Lexington is positioned in the Piedmont region.
It is centered at 35 49'0" North, 80 15'31" West (35.816768, 80.258643). Lexington is 11 miles (18 km) northeast of High Rock Lake, part of the Yadkin-Pee Dee chain of lakes in central North Carolina.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.0 square miles (46.6 km2), all of it land. Interstate 85 Business passes north and west of the center of Lexington, and Interstate 85 passes to the south.
Located in central North Carolina, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mid-Atlantic coast, Lexington has a humid subtropical climate, with moderate temperatures amid spring and autumn and warm to hot summers.
Climate data for Lexington, North Carolina (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Average snowy days 0.8 0.9 0.4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 2.4 Of the total population, 15.1% are at least 65 years old, 24.6% are under the age of 18, with the remaining 60.3% of the populace being persons from 18 to 64.
Caucasians make up 54.7% of the total populace (including 16.3% that are Latino), African-Americans 28.4% and Asians represent 2.9% of the population.
The global outsourcing of textile and furniture manufacturing has negatively impacted Lexington's economy. Barbecue in North Carolina a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lexington city, North Carolina".
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Historic Uptown Lexington, North Carolina.
William Rainey Holt, North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program Archived November 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
Lexington Tourism Authority, official website "Lexington: Pigs in the City", Electric Cities North Carolina Summer Bass Fishing Archived July 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
Camping in Piedmont, North Carolina.
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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