Maysville Historic District

Sims Street

	The Atkins-Sims House 437 Sims Street Built: 1855 Builder: Abraham Atkins
	Dr. W. G. Sharp House 325 Sims Street Built: 1894 Builder: William Gibson Sharp
	Bob White House 189 Sims Street Built: unavailable Builder: unavailable
	Unknown (Rowe) 151 Sims Street Built: n/a Builder: n/a

The Sims Street district in Maysville was once part of the vast estate of Sherman Jackson Sims (1823-1863).  Mr. Sims was a Confederate soldier who contracted typhoid fever and died in Jackson County in 1863, leaving his wife Amanda with eight children under the age of 18 to raise. 

The Sims family lived in the home now known as the Atkins-Sims House, which still stands at 437 Sims Street.  Built in 1855, the Atkins-Sims House is believed to be the oldest brick home north of Athens to the mountains of North Carolina.

With the donation of several acres of her land, Mrs. Sims was instrumental in the development of the railroad through the village of Brick Store, now Maysville.

When she died in 1905, Mrs. Amanda Sims' estate was subdivided and offered at auction.  This included dozens of lots for home sites as well as commercial lots in the center of town.  These well-planned and laid out lots would become the present-day Sims Street subdivision.

Page last updated 10/27/2011

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