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Waynesville Municipal Building

Buildings and structures in Haywood County, North CarolinaGovernment buildings completed in 1917Historic district contributing properties in North CarolinaNRHP infobox with nocatNational Register of Historic Places in Haywood County, North Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in North CarolinaPost office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North CarolinaUse mdy dates from August 2023Waynesville, North CarolinaWestern North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
Old Post Office, Waynesville, NC (39750534163)
Old Post Office, Waynesville, NC (39750534163)

The Waynesville Municipal Building, also known as the Former US Post Office Building, is a historic post office building located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. Its construction in 1917 was supervised by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore, and is a two-story, brick rectangular building in the Classical Revival style with a one-story rear extension. It measures 58 feet by 73 feet and features brick Ionic order pilasters with granite bases and capitals. The building housed Waynesville's post office until 1966 when it was purchased by the Town of Waynesville to serve as its Municipal Building.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Waynesville Main Street Historic District.

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Waynesville Municipal Building
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South Main Street 16
28786
North Carolina, United States
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Old Post Office, Waynesville, NC (39750534163)
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Green Hill Cemetery (Waynesville, North Carolina)
Green Hill Cemetery (Waynesville, North Carolina)

Green Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Waynesville, North Carolina, where the town's first doctors, lawyers, politicians, preachers, and business people are buried. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery is owned and operated by the Town of Waynesville.Colonel James Robert Love, who donated the land and founded Waynesville and is a hero of the American Revolutionary War, is buried on the highest hill in the cemetery. The white chief of the Cherokee people, William Holland Thomas, is buried there. He was also the founder of Thomas' Legion, a group of local mountaineers and Cherokee who fought during the American Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. This placed the cemetery on the North Carolina Civil Wars Trail.Some of the other notable pioneers are Congressmen James Moody and William T. Crawford and hotel owner and town promoter S. C. Satterthwaite. The cemetery hold the graves of individuals who succumbed to the Spanish flu of 1918. Buried there are five brothers who were Confederate soldiers that died during the American Civil War. William Greer, the chauffeur to five presidents, including John F. Kennedy on the day of his assassination, is buried at the cemetery.Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, was a tombstone supplier and provided the cemetery's eight pieces of "funeral art", made of stone imported from Italy. An old mill stone was used in the grave marker for Barber's Orchard owner, R.N. Barber. There are other distinctive artistic grave markers in the cemetery. Local author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Caroline Pafford Miller, is buried at Green Hill.