The Living Past of Cleveland County
Author : Lee Beam Weathers
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Cleveland County (N.C.)
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Author : Lee Beam Weathers
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Cleveland County (N.C.)
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Author : Barry E. Hambright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738514659
Located in North Carolina's rolling piedmont, Cleveland County was formed from portions of Lincoln and Rutherford Counties in 1841. Since the county's days as the leading cotton producer in western North Carolina, residents have gently changed their ways of life. Both agriculture and textiles are retreating into the distant past, but the impact both have had on Cleveland's towns and residents is not to be forgotten. This volume, the second in the Images of America series about the area, includes vintage photographs and postcards from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, beginning with an 1879 snapshot of an early educators' gathering. Prominent families who guided the county on its course make appearances, including Governor O. Max Gardner and his wife, Faye Webb Gardner; the W.J. Arey family, operators of the oldest family business in the county; and the O.Z. Morgan family, pioneers in the development of agriculture extension in North Carolina. Leaders of Cleveland's textile industry are also highlighted, including the families of John R. Dover of Shelby and C.E. Neisler of Kings Mountain.
Author : Shelby Daily Star (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Cleveland County (N.C.)
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Author : Bonnie Stahlman Speer
Publisher : Reliance Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780943087023
Author : Cleveland County Memorial Library (Cleveland County, N.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1978*
Category : Cleveland County (N.C.)
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Author : Marie Farrow Patterson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738592463
In the fall of 1923, the Shelby Kiwanis Club developed a plan to create a county-wide fair combining the Boiling Springs, Fallston, and Union community fairs into one event. Through the sales of $20 shares of stock, $15,000 was raised to establish the Cleveland County Fair. The first fair was held in 1924 with 70,000 in attendance. Since then, the theme has always been to celebrate city and farm life coming together through such popular attractions as agricultural exhibits, livestock, carnival rides, stage show revues, stock car racing, tractor pulls, and demolition derbies. Today, the Cleveland County Fair remains the largest county fair in North Carolina and the county's largest continuing attraction, drawing attendees in from a 75-mile radius of Shelby. The average annual attendance holds strong at over 175,000 people.
Author : Bruce E. Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0813130174
Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians—was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Cleveland County (N.C.)
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Stories compiled from a series that ran from February 1999 - January 2000 in the Shelby Star. Includes a chapters on each decade, important events, and influential people.
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Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Cleveland County (Ark.)
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Author : Samuel Peter Orth
Publisher :
Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
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