Zebulon Vance (1830-1894), Confederate officer and wartime governor of North Carolina, briefly occupied this home in 1865. Federal troops arrested him here at the end of the Civil War.

The Vance house is currently located at 501 W Sharpe Street in Statesville, NC. It does not stand in its original location.

Gov. Vance was Tom Dula’s attorney between 1866-1868.

Because Dula and Ann Melton did not believe they would receive a fair trial in Wilkes County, Vance had their trials relocated to Iredell County.