History by Time Period - 1900-1930
Showing 31-45 of 92 items
| ID | Thumbnail | Title | Description | Year | Keywords/Links |
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A. V. Wray storefront | Standing in front of his store on Lafyette St across from the courthouse.
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Town: Shelby, Business: Retail Store, People: Notable Figures, Merchant | |
| 35 |
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A.V.Wray and Sons. | A V Wray, Stough Wray, A V Wray Sr., Charles Wray, Harvey Wray, George Wray and Robert Wray.
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Town: Shelby, Business, People: Notable Figures, Wray, merchant, store | |
| 274 |
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Advertisement for salesmen | This ad advertisement was in the Danville Bee (Danville, Va.) looking for a salesman. Rex Cigar Company, Shelby N.C.
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1927 | Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Cigars |
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Amzi Clarence Dixon | Amzi Clarence Dixon (July 6, 1854 – June 14, 1925) was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and evangelist who was popular during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries
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1854-1925 | Town: Shelby, Institution: Church, People: Notable Figures, Religious Leaders, Minister, preacher, author, evangelist |
| 265 |
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Arey Brothers Oil Company | 1920s Arey Oil Company selling Texaco products. This was located is at the railroad on South Morgan Street.
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1920 | Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Arey, Morgan Street, railroad |
| 209 |
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Ballad of the 1907 Cleveland Springs Fire | The story about the Second hotel at Cleveland Springs, the fire in 1907 and the lives lost.
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1907 | Town: Shelby, Mineral Spring: Cleveland Springs, Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), Highlight: Disasters, Little-Known Facts, Fire, Cleveland Springs, McFarland |
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Carolina Theatre location | Aerial view showing the location of the Carolina Theatre (formally The Princess Theatre)
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Town: Shelby, Business: Theatre | |
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Charles C. Blanton | Charles C. Blanton Industrialist and Banker
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Town: Shelby, Business: Bank, People: Notable Figures, Charles Blanton, banker | |
| 61 |
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Cleveland Hotel | Photo of the Cleveland Hotel (formally College Hotel) on the corner of Washington and Graham streets. It was demolished and replaced by City Hall. This building had been the first female academy and the first hospital in Shelby
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1883-1930 | Town: Shelby, Hotel: Other, Business, female academy, academy, hospital, hotel |
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Cleveland Mill and Power Company n 1903 | 1903 Cleveland Mill and Power Company. Horse drawn wagons were used to haul materials for the factory.
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1903 | Business: Mill, Mills, power, transportation, |
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Cleveland Springs Hotel Dining | Splendid dining room in the Cleveland Springs Hotel built in 1921.
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1921-1929 | Town: Shelby, Business, springs, Cleveland springs, minerals |
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Cleveland Springs Hotel Flier | A 1920s flier promotes the hotel with the claim of being fireproof which it sadly was not. It burned in 1929.
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1921-1929 | Town: Shelby, Mineral Spring: Cleveland Springs, Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), Business, Fire, advertisement, |
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Cleveland Springs Hotel grounds | The second Cleveland Springs hotel and grounds. You can see the old Wilson home across from the Hotel. Many improvements had been made to the hotel and grounds . The new wing was added in 1888. The small structure behind the hotel seen on the upper right was the kitchen. Lightening struck the transformer above it, in 1907, and the resulting fire destroyed the entire hotel.
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1888-1907 | Town: Shelby, Mineral Spring: Cleveland Springs, Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), Business, spring, Wilson, fire |
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Cleveland Springs Hotel in 1924 | Cleveland Springs Hotel in 1924
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1921-1929 | Town: Shelby, Mineral Spring: Cleveland Springs, Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), Business, Cleveland Springs, spring, fire |
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Cleveland Star Offices | Newspaper employees in front of the Cleveland Star office on East Marion Street. Clyde Hoey purchased the Shelby Review in 1894 and renamed it to the Cleveland Star and it was incorporated in 1903 as the Star Publishing Company.
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Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Cleveland Star, Star, Hoey, Lee B. Weathers, Shelby Review |