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  History of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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Visit Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 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...
  
  
  
• 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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  Elizabeth College, 1907
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  1907 parade on Tryon Street
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  Southern Depot
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  A Few of the Fine Buildings, of Charlotte, N.C., 1910
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  Stand Pipe. Second largest of its kind in the United States.
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  New Masonic Temple
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  View from Trust Building, showing Selwyn Hotel, Realty Building, City Hall, Charlotte, N. C. (1911)
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  Trucking Cotton on the Old City Platform, Charlotte, N.C., The Industrial Centre of the New South.
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  U.S. Assay Office
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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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  Bird's-eye View, looking North
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  Mecklenburg County Court House and Law Building
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  Selwyn Hotel, Looking East on Trade St.
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• 1922 - March 18 - WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio transmissions
  
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  Mayfair Hotel
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  Dilworth Road Looking North, Addison Apartments
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  Historical Scenes of Charlotte, N.C.
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  Mercy Hospital
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  Tryon Street looking South. "Wall St. of Charlotte, N.C."
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  City Hall, Charlotte, N.C.
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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.
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  Burlington, North Carolina
  April 8, 1936
  
  
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  Memorial Stadium and Armory
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  First Baptist Church
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  Presbyterian Hospital
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  Municipal Airport
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  First Presbyterian Church
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•  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.
  
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•  1958 - September 5 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
  
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  September 5, 1958