Mamie Jones

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This article continues Benjamin Baxter Suttle’s recollections of Shelby in the 1880s–1890s, describing early brick buildings, population growth, and a business boom around 1884. It details public wells on the courthouse square, construction methods before modern utilities, and the prominence of tobacco manufacturing, including local factories, sales barns, and regional trade. The narrative also explains how the arrival of the Carolina Central Railroad transformed Shelby into a cotton trading center, with wagons lined from the courthouse to the depot. Overall, the piece illustrates economic development, industry shifts from tobacco to cotton, and the town’s emergence as a commercial hub.

Publication Date

7-20-1950

City

Shelby, NC

Keywords

Benjamin Baxter Suttle, Tom Wells, A. L. Hardin, Sam Green, David Froneberger, Dr. Williams, Crawford Durham, D. D. Suttle, Paul Webb, Jack Nance, Wash Webb, Walter Fulenwider, Mary Nance, Jack Van Lindingham, Jesse Jenkins, Joe Stephens, Baxter Jenkins, H. Humphries, J. F. Bland, Henry Grady, Frank Hamrick, Tom Dixon Jr., Irvin Allen, Ben Jenkins, Charlie Carroll, Will Carroll, Jim Mallard, Masonic Temple, Shelby, Blanton’s Hall, A. V. Wray & Six Sons, First National Bank, Central Methodist Church, Kendall Medicine Company, Bostic Bros. & Wright Tobacco Manufacturers, Carolina Central Railroad, Seaboard Air Line, Southern Railway, Tobacco factories

Contributors

Fay Webb Gardner Collection in the Gardner-Webb University Archives

1950, July 20 - Cleveland County Early Days

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