History by Time Period - 1900-1930
Showing 61-75 of 92 items
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Freight Car full of shoes | Wray-Hudson Company. A.V. Wray and W.H. Hudson were partners in the 1920s. Hudson left Wray before the depression and opened his own store..
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Town: Shelby, Business: Retail Store, People: Notable Figures | |
| 267 |
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Gilmers Furniture going out of business advertisement | The company was destroyed in the collapse of the building in the 1928 Shelby Disaster.
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1928 | Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Document, Advertisement, Furniture, Gilmers, Shelby Disaster, Disaster |
| 195 |
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Gristmill on Broad River | Postcard of a gristmill on Broad River near Piedmont High School
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Town: Lawndale, Business: Mill, mill, gristmill, highschool | |
| 680 |
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HISTORY OF THE CLEVELAND SPRINGS | By Mrs. J. P. Caldwell in The Charlotte Observer in 1921 for the Grand Opening of the new hotel. She was once a student at the school there.
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1921 | Mineral Spring: Cleveland Springs, Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), People: Notable Figures, Document: Newspaper Article, Charlotte Observer, Caldwell, Grand opening, |
| 167 |
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Hal Kemp and band | 1927 Hal Kemp his band performing at Cleveland Springs Hotel
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1927 | Hotel: Cleveland Springs Hotel (formerly Wilson Springs), Document: Miscellaneous, band, entertainment |
| 268 |
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Honeycutt Feed and Seed | Honeycutt Feed and Seed Was on West Warren Street. O.Z. Morgan would later move it across the street and RR tracks and changed the name to Morgan and Company.
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Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Honeycutt, Warren, Morgan and Co. | |
| 30 |
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Horse-drawn buggy and 1874 Couthouse. | A horse-drawn buggy driving on south Washington street in the late 1800s. The 1847 courthouse is in the background.
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1890 | Town: Shelby, courthouse, buggy, washington |
| 12 |
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Hotel Charles | Hotel Charles after being refurbished from the fire in 1928. The name was changed from Central Hotel to The Charles Hotel, named for Charles Blanton. This historic Hotel Charles is located on Warren Street in uptown Shelby, NC.
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1890 | Town: Shelby, Hotel, Charles, fire, Warren, Central Hotel |
| 62 |
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Hotel Charles | Hotel Charles after being refurbished from the fire in 1928. The name was changed from Central Hotel to The Charles Hotel, named for Charles Blanton.
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Town: Shelby, Hotel: Charles Hotel, Business, Highlight: Disasters, fire | |
| 176 |
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Huggins-Curtis Building | 1924 postcard showing the Huggins-Curtis Building and the newly built Boiling Springs Baptist Church on right. The memorial building can be seen next to the main building.
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1924 | Town: Boiling Springs, building, postcard |
| 253 |
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John R. Dover Sr. | John R. Dover Sr. was a pivotal figure in Shelby, NC's textile history, founding Dover Textiles in 1907, which grew into a major employer with mills like Ella Mill and Dover Mill (later Doran Mill)
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Town: Shelby, Business: Mill, People: Notable Figures, mills. textiles, Dover, Ella mills, Dover mill | |
| 269 |
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Kendall's Drug iInterior | 1915 postcard showing the interior of Kendall's Drug Store. There were many drugs stores around Shelby.
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1915 | Town: Shelby, Business: Other, Drug store, Kendall's, |
| 218 |
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Kings Mountain High School class of 1914 | Kings Mountain High School class of 1914. The names are in the caption.
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1914 | Town: Kings Mountain, Institution: School, People: Group Photo |
| 241 |
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M.P. Coley Insurance parade float in 1919 | James Perry Austell Jr. is on the front of the float. Mr. & Mrs. Coley as well as Mr. & Mrs. Casstevens are in the car
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1923 | Town: Shelby, Business: Other |
| 211 |
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New Princess Theatre | The New Princess Theatre opened in 1917 and was showing silent films, In 1941 it was renamed Carolina Theatre. It was later converted into a Woolworth store.
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1917 | Town: Shelby, Business: Theatre, theatre, movie theatre, Princess |