{{Short description|State highway in North Carolina, US}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |state=NC |type=NC |map=NC 705 map.svg |route = 705 |length_mi = 26.1 |length_ref=<ref name=GM>{{google maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=NC-705+N&daddr=35.485868,-79.6893283+to:NC-705+N&hl=en&ll=35.415405,-79.683435&spn=0.481253,0.891953&sll=35.53722,-79.788251&sspn=0.015016,0.027874&geocode=FY56GgIdzdRA-w%3BFax4HQIdkAlA-ym5nurOcF9TiDHcoo6pWjLcLA%3BFaY6HgIdYXg--w&mra=dme&mrsp=2&sz=16&via=1&t=m&z=11 |accessdate=April 30, 2015}}</ref> |direction_b = North |direction_a = South |terminus_b = {{Jct|state=NC|I|73|I|74|US|220}} near Seagrove |terminus_a = {{Jct|state=NC|NC|211}} near Eagle Springs |junction = {{Jct|state=NC|NC|24|NC|27}} in Robbins<br>{{Jct|state=NC|US-Alt|220}} in Seagrove |counties = Moore, Randolph |established = 1931 |previous_type=NC |previous_route=704 |next_type=NC |next_route=710 }}

'''North Carolina Highway 705''' ('''NC&nbsp;705''') is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The route is marked as the '''Pottery Highway''' or '''Pottery Road''' and as a North Carolina Scenic Byway<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/12839/ | title = Pottery Road - Overview | accessdate = 2006-12-29 | author = National Scenic Byways Online}}</ref> due to the large number of potters in and surrounding Seagrove.

==Route description== {{USRD-wrongdir}} thumb|NC Hwy 705 Pottery Highway [[File:Robbins NC downtown 1.jpg|thumb|NC 705 North in the central business district of Robbins, North Carolina.]] NC 705 begins at a northern terminus near Seagrove, North Carolina at I-73/I-74US 220 exit 45. It passes through Seagrove, crossing US 220 Alternate. The highway travels southeasterly in Randolph County where it passes through the community of Whynot southeast of Seagrove.

The route passes into Moore County just north of the communities of Dover and Westmoore. It continues southwesterly through Robbins, North Carolina where it junctions with NC 24/NC 27 just south of Robbins at the community of Garners Store. From the junction, the route turns southeasterly and continues through the community of Zion Grove until it ends in the community of Elberta near Eagle Springs, North Carolina.

===Pottery Road=== The route takes the traveler through historic areas of North Carolina which have been making and selling hand-turned or "hand-thrown" pottery since the eighteenth century.<ref>[http://www.discoverseagrove.com/pottery-history.asp SAPA - Learn more about the history of Seagrove, NC and its North Carolina potters<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The area potters produce traditional functional pottery as well as artistic pottery.

The Cole, Auman, Owen, Teague, and Albright families are eighth- and ninth-generation potters in Seagrove and the surrounding areas.

Some of the oldest, historic pottery locations still in operation include the '''"Original" Owens Pottery''' founded in 1895<ref>[http://www.travelbeat.net/artandcraft/archives/2008/04/ Tradition and Modernity: The Potters of Seagrove, North Carolina]</ref> and '''Jugtown Pottery''' founded in 1921.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/jugtown.html |title=Encyclopedia of North Carolina :: UNC Press<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=January 22, 2008 |archive-date=November 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110093557/http://uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/jugtown.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jugtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

===Plank Road=== Portions of the route are part of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road connecting the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina with Moravian settlements near Bethania, North Carolina (northwest of Winston-Salem).

==History== {{Empty section|date=June 2014}}

==Junction list== {{jcttop|length_ref=<ref name=GM/>}} {{NCint |county=Moore |cspan=2 |location=Eagle Springs |mile=0.0 |road={{jct|state=NC|NC|211|city1=Candor|city2=West End|road|Eagle Springs Road}} }} {{NCint |location=Robbins |mile=9.2 |road={{jct|state=NC|NC|24|NC|27|city1=Carthage|city2=Biscoe}} }} {{NCint |county=Randolph |cspan=2 |location=Seagrove |mile=25.2 |road={{jct|state=NC|US-Alt|220|dab1=|name1=Broad Street}} }} {{NCint |location=none |mile=26.0 |mile2=26.1 |road={{jct|state=NC|I|73|I|74|US|220|city1=Asheboro|city2=Rockingham|road|Little River Road}} |notes=Exit 61 (I-73/I-74) }} {{jctbtm}}

==See also== * North Carolina Bicycle Route 6 - Concurrent with NC 705 from Old Plank Road in Seagrove to I-73/I-74/US 220

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Attached KML|display=inline, title}} * {{commons category-inline}} * [http://www.vahighways.com/ncannex/route-log/nc705.html NCRoads.com: N.C. 705] *https://discoverseagrove.com/

Category:American potters Category:Transportation in Moore County, North Carolina Category:Transportation in Randolph County, North Carolina 705