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Old Photos, Pictures, Advertisements and Postcards from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Stand Pipe. Second largest of its kind in the United States.

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View from Trust Building, showing Selwyn Hotel, Realty Building, City Hall, Charlotte, N. C. (1911)

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Trucking Cotton on the Old City Platform, Charlotte, N.C., The Industrial Centre of the New South.
History, News and Stories of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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1755 - Charlotte, North Carolina founded
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1837 - July 27 - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
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1844 - July 27 - Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
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1854 - Charlotte
Charlotte, a thriving town, capital of Mecklenburg county. North Carolina, on Sugar creek, 1 68 miles W. S. W. from Raleigh. It is one of the principal towns in the W. part of the State, and has rapidly increased for a few years past, in consequence of the gold mines which have been opened in the... Read MORE...
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 Line Railroad, 500 yards beyond Paw Creek trestle, 9 miles from the city, about 7 o'clock. Two freight trains of the usual size left Charlotte... Read MORE...
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1895 - Charlotte
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... 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 and treasurer of the Chadwick, Hoskins, Louise, Calvine and Dover Mills, is the latest addition to the increasing ranks of the Charlotte Automobile... Read MORE...
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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 Salisbury. It is the seat of Biddle University (Presbyterian), organized in 1887, Elizabeth College, Presbyterian College for Women, etc., and of a branch... Read MORE...
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1922 - March 18 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
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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 morning.
The body was about half a mile down stream from the point on his father's farm near Pineville where Kiser fell into the flooded stream.
The Daily Times-News
Burlington, North Carolina
April 8, 1936
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 yesterday lay in critical condition today. Two others died of injuries received when they tumbled into the shallow stream.
At least a score of... 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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