Lincolnton Quilt Trail
The Lincoln Quilt Trail promotes community pride and tourism throughout Lincoln County by encouraging both residents and visitors alike to appreciate and view first hand our beautiful agrarian landscape, historic barns, and fully functioning farms.
Quilt trails are among the fastest growing grassroots public art movements in the United States. As a quilt tells its story by the fabric remnants of many hand-made clothes and by its particular design, a barn quilt square can also show off love of design, form, color, and history.
The barns of Lincoln County are vanishing. They are an important part of our agrarian heritage. In paying homage to barns still nestled in our gently rolling landscape, we launched the Lincoln Quilt Trail. We invite you to take the back roads to view Lincoln County history and heritage through the Quilt Squares displayed throughout the community at various public and private locations.
The first quilt squares were installed at the Lincoln Cultural Center, the Lincolnton-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce, the Jonas Public Library, the Lincolnton Fire Department, Betty G. Ross Park, and the Lincoln Economic Development Association. Each quilt square is unique to its location and not repeated elsewhere in Lincoln County.
To see more photos of these quilts in their locations, go to the Barn Quilts photo album.