Some Early Charlotte Neighborhoods A-Z

Overview – The Growth of Charlotte

Uptown

• Center City (original 4 wards): history
• Pearl Street Park

Belmont/Villa Heights/Optimist Park

• Belmont/Villa Heights/ Optimist Park: history

Beatties Ford Road/Biddleville/West End /JCSU

• Beatties Ford Road corridor: history  
• Biddleville: history
• West End interactive history map (vintage photos, oral histories, more)
• West End/JCSU: walking tour
• Photo collections at JCSU 
• Cedar Grove Cemetery

(see also Wesley Heights, Washington Heights, McCrorey Heights, Oaklawn Park — listed below)

Chadwick/Hoskins

• Chadwick-Hoskins: history

Cherry

• Cherry: history

Crescent Heights

• Crescent Heights: history

Dilworth

• Dilworth from 1911: history
• Dilworth before 1911: history
• Dilworth/South End walking tour
• Dilworth historic district walking tour

East Charlotte

• Independence Boulevard corridor: Historic Structures Survey

Eastover

• Eastover Neighborhood: history

Elizabeth

• Elizabeth: history
• Elizabeth: walking tour
• Elizabeth: 5-Minute Video
• Elizabeth: National Register Historic District
• Independence Park in Elizabeth

McCrorey Heights

• McCrorey Heights: house-by-house history: 
• McCrorey Heights: overview essay (61 pages)
• McCrorey Heights resident Elizabeth (Libby) Randolph

Myers Park

• Myers Park: history
• Myers Park: walking tour
• Myers Park: National Register historic distric

North Charlotte (now known as NoDa)

• North Charlotte: history
• North Charlotte: National Register historic district
• NoDa: walking tour
• NoDa: 5-Minute Video
• Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers (drawings of Highland Park #3 mill and village by engineer Stuart Cramer)

Oaklawn Park

• Oaklawn Park: history
• Oaklawn Park: 5-Minute Video

Plaza Midwood

• Plaza Midwood: history
• Plaza Midwood: walking tour of The Plaza and vicinity
• Plaza Midwood: walking tour of Central Av and vicinity

Washington Heights

• Washington Heights: history
• Washington Heights resident Lethia Jones Henderson
• Washington Heights: L.C. Coleman Park

Wesley Heights

• Wesley Heights: National Register historic district