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"Charlotte, a city of North Carolina, and the capital of Mecklenburg co., is on the Atlanta & Richmond Air-Line Railroad, 265 miles E.N.E. of Atlanta, 44 miles S.S.W. of Salisbury, and 110 miles N. of Columbia, S.C. It is the northern terminus of the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad, and the southern terminus of the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad. It is the seat of the Biddle University (Presbyterian), organized in 1867. It contains a court-house, 10 churches, 2 academies, 3 national banks. a state bank, a branch mint, 4 cotton-mills, 2 cotton-seed oil mills, a hosiery-mill, 2 machine-factories, furniture-, sash., door-, and blind-factories, and 2 daily and 3 weekly news paper offices. Pop. in 1880, 7094; in 1890, 11,557."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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- 1755 - Charlotte, North Carolina founded
www.wikipedia.org - 1837 - July 27 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
historyorb.com - 1844 - July 27 - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
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1880 - KILLED IN RAILROAD COLLISION. THREE LIVES LOST IN A FREIGHT-TRAIN CABOOSE -- ENGINEERS AND BRAKEMEN KILLED ON THE MOBILE AND OHIO ROAD.
Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 27. - Information of another frightful railroad disaster reached the city this morning about 8 o'clock. It occurred on the Air ...Read MORE...- 1907 - MR. A. J. DRAPER'S MISHAP.
Mischievous Boys Place Big Rock in Road and Mr. Draper, Returning From Gastonia, at Night, Injures His New Machine.
Mr. A. J. Draper, secretary...Read MORE... 
Stand Pipe. Second largest of its kind in the United States.
View from Trust Building, showing Selwyn Hotel, Realty Building, City Hall, Charlotte, N. C. (1911)- 1916
Charlotte, a city of North Carolina, and the capital of Mecklenburg co., is on the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern It., 44 miles SSW. of...Read MORE... - 1922 - March 18 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
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City Hall, Charlotte, N.C.- 1936 - BOY'S DROWNED BODY FOUND.
Charlotte, April 8. - (AP) - The body of D. C. Kiser, Jr., 13 year old boy who was drowned in Sugar Creek yesterday, was recovered this...Read MORE... - 1955 - FOOTBRIDGE FALL KILLS 2, MANY HURT. COLLAPSE OF STRUCTURE HURTLES 100 INTO RIVER; 20 OR MORE IN HOSPITAL.
Cherokee, N.C., July 4 - (UP) - Five of an estimated 100 persons thrown onto jagged rocks on the Oconaluftee River bed when a footbridge collapsed...Read MORE... - 1958 - September 5 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
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September 5, 1958
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