The following is a
timeline of the
history of
Charlotte ,
North Carolina , United States.
Prior to 19th century
1763 –
Mecklenburg County established.
[1]
1768 – Charlotte Town incorporated.
1770 – Queen's Museum chartered.
[2]
1774 – Charlotte becomes capital of county.
1775 –
Mecklenburg Resolves signed.
1777 – Liberty Hall Academy incorporated.
1780 –
Battle of Charlotte fought.
19th century
1835 – Charlotte Journal newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1837 –
Charlotte Mint opens.
1850 – William F. Davidson becomes mayor.
1852
Railway begins operating.
Western Democrat newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1857
1858 – Charlotte Military Academy established.
1867 –
Biddle Memorial Institute founded.
1875 – Charlotte public schools established.
[7]
1880 – Population: 7,084.
1886 –
Charlotte Chronicle newspaper begins publication.
[4]
[8]
1887
1888 –
The Charlotte News begins publication.
[4]
1890 – Charlotte Post newspaper begins publication.
[9]
1891
City hall built.
Charlotte Literary and Library Association organized.
[10]
Latta Park established
1897 –
Elizabeth College established.
[11]
20th century
21st century
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2000s
2010s
See also
References
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^ Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina. 1898
^
"About The Charlotte Observer" . Archived from
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^
"African American newspapers in North Carolina" . Research Guides for North Carolina . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
^ Laws and resolutions of the State of North Carolina. 1891
^ American College and Private School Directory. 1914
^ American Library Annual, 1917–1918 . New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v.
hdl :
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^
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b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939),
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OCLC
2459636
^
"Bryant Park | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission" . 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2024-03-11 .
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Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , US Census Bureau, 1998
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b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960),
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^
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^
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Botanic Gardens Conservation International . Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
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Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada . Rowman Altamira.
ISBN
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^
"Timeline of Our History" . Charlotte NC: Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture. Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
^
"NII Awards 1995" . USA:
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^ "North Carolina".
Official Congressional Directory . 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1993.
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^ Steve Snow (ed.).
"Charlotte's Web" . Archived from
the original on 1998-02-12.
^ Patricia A. Langelier (1996).
"Local Government Home Pages" . Popular Government . 6 (3). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 38+.
ISSN
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^
"Charlotte-Mecklenburg Home Page" . Archived from
the original on 1998-12-02 – via Internet Archive,
Wayback Machine .
^
"By Court Order, Busing Ends Where It Began" , New York Times , September 11, 1999
^
"Featured Guides: City: Charlotte" . Eat Well Guide . New York: Grace Communication Foundation. Archived from
the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015 .
^
Tina Rosenberg (October 9, 2014),
"In This World Cup, the Goal is a Better Life" , New York Times
^
"Meet the Mayors" . Washington, DC:
United States Conference of Mayors . Archived from
the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013 .
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^
"The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF) . US Census Bureau. 2014. Vintage 2013 Population Estimates
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^
"State of emergency declared in US city" , BBC News , September 22, 2016
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
Published in 20th century
Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1903), History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte, from 1740 to 1903 , Charlotte, N.C: Observer Print. House,
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23304731M
Walsh's Charlotte, North Carolina City Directory , Charleston, S.C.: Walsh Directory Co., 1907
Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1911 , Asheville, N.C: Piedmont Directory Co., 1911,
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13510683M
Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1925 , Asheville, N.C: Miller Press, 1925
Miller's Charlotte, North Carolina city directory: 1931 , Detroit: Piedmont Directory Co., 1931
Federal Writers’ Project (1939).
"Charlotte" . North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State .
American Guide Series . p. 158+ – via Internet Archive. {{
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Chronology
George Thomas Kurian (1994),
"Charlotte, North Carolina" , World Encyclopedia of Cities , vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
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1431653M (fulltext via Open Library)
Thomas W. Hanchett (1998). Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875–1975 . University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
978-0-8078-4677-3 .
"The South: North Carolina: Charlotte", USA ,
Let's Go , New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999,
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24937240M
Published in 21st century
Vermelle Diamond Ely; Grace Hoey Drain; Amy Rogers (2001). Charlotte, North Carolina . Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
Catherine Maddison (2007). "Charlotte, North Carolina". In
David Goldfield (ed.).
Encyclopedia of American Urban History . Sage. pp. 134–136.
ISBN
978-1-4522-6553-7 .
Hunter Bacot (2012),
"Civic culture as a policy premise: appraising Charlotte's civic culture" , in Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld (ed.), Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making , Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
ISBN
978-1-4094-3654-6
Raj Chetty ; Nathaniel Hendren (2015),
City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood , Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, archived from
the original on 2015-05-06, Rank #97: Charlotte, North Carolina
External links
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