Mcgee Heck News Today

Now that the Heck-Andrews house is revived, some of the NC Association of Realtors’ 55,000 members have begun pointing out its uglier past and questioning their own role in confronting it.

Jonathan McGee Heck, for whom the house was built, fought as a Confederate colonel, identifying so strongly with the Southern cause that he left his family in what is now West Virginia and joined with the rebels in Richmond.