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Charlotte

Author : John R. Rogers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567372
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte written by John R. Rogers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city's founding until the late 1890s, the four wards created by the crossing of Trade and Tryon Streets defined the residential fabric of Charlotte. As the twentieth century approached, the Southern textile boom fueled labor and housing demands that were met by the earliest suburbs that rose out of the farms and pastures surrounding the small town. Dilworth was the first of these suburbs, connected to the town center by the city's maiden electric streetcar line. More new communities quickly followed. Some, such as Myers Park and Elizabeth, have remained strong throughout their history. North Charlotte, Belmont, and others have changed under economic and social challenges. Still others, such as Brooklyn, are gone; they survive only in the memories and photographs of the families that called them home.

Charlotte's Historic Neighborhoods

Author : Amy Rogers
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 9780738543079
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte's Historic Neighborhoods written by Amy Rogers and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte, a hub of Southern tradition, boasts a rich and fascinating history. Known for its historic neighborhoods, the city as a whole played a vital role in textiles, manufacturing, and transportation.

Charlotte, Its Historic Neighborhoods

Author : John Reynolds Rogers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780752405155
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte, Its Historic Neighborhoods written by John Reynolds Rogers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439629684
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte written by Jeff Byers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531611668
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte written by Jeff Byers and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Charlotte and Its Neighborhoods

Author : Thomas W. Hanchett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte and Its Neighborhoods written by Thomas W. Hanchett and published by . This book was released on 1986* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738517018
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte by : Jeff Byers

Download or read book Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte written by Jeff Byers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte, North Carolina

Author : Pamela Grundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte, North Carolina written by Pamela Grundy and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories told by many generations of Charlotte's African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Author : Mary Norton Kratt
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9781596296015
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte, North Carolina written by Mary Norton Kratt and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. In this extensively researched volume, accomplished author and historian Mary Kratt chronicles the history of Charlotte from the earliest Catawba inhabitants to the development of finance, culture and transportation, still centered on those ancient crossroads. Hear the personal voices of discovery, hardship, wars, privation, segregation and achievement from village to boomtown. Whether detailing the cotton fields and textile mills of yesterday or the banking center of tomorrow, Kratt's account is a fascinating history of the people who have made Charlotte a queen among southern cities.

27 Views of Charlotte

Author : Mark de Castrique
Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0989609200
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Charlotte written by Mark de Castrique and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27 VIEWS of CHARLOTTE: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of the city known for banking, trees, diversity, and sports. Journalists, novelists, poets, and essayists offer a broad and varied picture of life, present and past, in the legendary Southern city—from a history of the city’s stint as capital of the Confederacy, to a deeply personal essay about integrating restaurants during the civil rights era, to reflections on contemporary Charlotte’s overwhelming growth and New South reputation. Authors appreciate Charlotte’s diversity and vitality, tout its vibrant arts and food scenes, and praise surging Uptown. Yet they don’t shy away from its ongoing struggles: cultural, political, and economic. The views create a literary montage of Charlotte, reflecting its social, historic, and creative fabric.

Fourth Ward Charlotte

Author : Cameron Holtz
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781467154260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Fourth Ward Charlotte written by Cameron Holtz and published by History Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a walk through this intimate and charming neighborhood. In 1970, Charlotte's Fourth Ward was a desolate zone of vacant lots dotted with boarded-up and burned-out buildings. Today, the neighborhood is a leafy mix of Victorian homes, modern in-fill houses and stately apartment buildings. The remarkable story of that transformation began with an unlikely coalition of preservationists, bankers and young families seeking community. Author Cameron Holtz interviewed dozens of these early actors, including corporate leaders, people who got their start as volunteers and kids who grew up playing in the construction equipment. Personal recollections, along with archival sources and contemporary media clippings combine to create a vibrant portrait of the emerging neighborhood.

A Good Neighborhood

Author : Therese Anne Fowler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250237289
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Good Neighborhood written by Therese Anne Fowler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020 "A provocative, absorbing read." — People “A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Thingsand A Spark of Light In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.

Poster Girls

Author : Meredith Ritchie
Publisher : Warren Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781954614598
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Poster Girls written by Meredith Ritchie and published by Warren Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte's largest wartime employer--the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant. Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell's steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow. A shared love of literature begins an unlikely friendship between Kora and Maggie, and the two work together to unify the plant's workforce. Stringent rules are necessary when the air is charged with gun powder and polite society, until Maggie and Kora must break them in order to support their families, end the war, and bring their husbands home. Told from two perspectives, Poster Girls is driven by the true but forgotten events and accomplishments of a diverse group of American women, both relevant and necessary to stop modern cycles of misundestanding.

Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley Dixon

Author : Ken Pursley
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870820
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley Dixon written by Ken Pursley and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their first book, acclaimed architects Ken Pursley and Craig Dixon explore how to create gracious homes with welcoming entryways, soulful interiors, inviting porches, and ebullient gardens. Founded on the simple principle “Build beautiful things,” the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects Bobby McAlpine and Jeff Dungan, is known for blending elements of tradition with a modern lifestyle. In Finding Home, they share 15 stunning houses in three distinct styles: rustic mountain escapes, dreamy retreats by the water, and elegant houses in town. Each house has its own thoughtful visual narrative, but all are connected on an innate and authentic level by their sense of proportion, attention to detail, and a marvelous affinity with nature, displayed in their soothing neutral palettes, oversize windows that bring the outdoors in, and natural materials such as rough-hewn stone and unfinished wood. Little touches of humanity await discovery, such as a sleeping nook perched right out into the highest branches of a tree. These eccentricities and secrets add to the distinctly Southern sense of warmth and refuge these homes provide, homes whose open interiors and majestic porches easily accommodate family and gatherings. Featuring their own interior design work as well as that of acclaimed decorators such as Suzanne Kasler, Phoebe Howard, and Circa Interiors, Finding Home is about creating houses of inherent beauty that will spark an emotional connection to last a lifetime.

Money Rock

Author : Pam Kelley
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973286
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Money Rock written by Pam Kelley and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ambitious look at the cost of urban gentrification.” —Atlanta-Journal Constitution “Kelley could have written a fine book about Charlotte’s drug trade in the ’80s and ’90s, filled with shoot-outs and flashy jewelry. What she accomplishes with Money Rock, however, is far more laudable.” —Charlotte Magazine “Pam Kelley knows a good story when she sees one—and Money Rock is a hell of a story. . . like a New South version of The Wire.” —Shelf Awareness Meet Money Rock—young, charismatic, and Charlotte’s flashiest coke dealer—in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. The saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as "Maximum Bob." When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies—racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration—help shape individual destinies. Money Rock is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.

A Town Within a Town

Author : Brandon Lunsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book A Town Within a Town written by Brandon Lunsford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renewal of the North Charlotte mill neighborhood in the late 1980's and early 1990's provides an example of how historic preservation can operate to protect and promote a community's physical, economic, and cultural heritage for the benefit of a city and its residents. The individuals and entities that helped contribute to the revitalization of the neighborhood have fashioned a distinct feature in Charlotte's historical built environment and have provided models of public and private initiatives that are worth emulating both Charlotte and outside of it. North Charlotte, which had fallen victim to crime, vagrancy, prostitution, and drugs after the mills closed in the late 1960's and early 1970's, saw dramatic initiatives began to occur in the late 1980's. Soon buildings were being renovated, streets and yards were being cleaned, and a sense of community was being restored. Today North Charlotte has managed to maintain its eclectic historic feel, and despite recent fears of gentrification among many it is one of the newest "hotspots" for development in Charlotte. This writer intends to prove that a large part of the neighborhood's successful revitalization lay in the concerted efforts of preservationists as well as private citizens to restore not only the structures, but the identity of the once-proud mill town.

Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers; V.4

Author : Stuart W (Stuart Warren) 18 Cramer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018866475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers; V.4 written by Stuart W (Stuart Warren) 18 Cramer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.