Stanly County, North Carolina
Badin Real Estate and Local Guide
A small former company town at the foot of the Uwharrie Mountains, built in the French garden-city style and shaped by decades of Alcoa aluminum production.
Living in Badin
Founded in 1913 as a French-designed aluminum company town and named for industrialist Adrien Badin. Source: badin-museum.org
Homes in Badin
Source: ACS 2023
What makes Badin home
Badin Historic District
Planned French company-town district listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Narrows Dam and Power Plant Complex
Hydroelectric dam and plant on the Yadkin River listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Badin Museum
Local museum documenting the town's French origins and Alcoa aluminum history
Badin Lake
Reservoir on the Yadkin River at the south edge of town, used for boating and fishing
Badin areas to know
West Badin
Historically the African-American section of the company town, with its own National Register historic district