. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. 25, 1903, with How-ard A. Banks as editor. The first telegraphic news servicereceived in Charlotte was by the old Observer in March,1874. The Observer issues a semi-weekly edition, and theNews also issues a semi-weekly known as the Times-Demo-crat. Besides these are the Mill News, the Peoples and Western Textile Excelsior, Carolina MedicalJournal, Star of Zion by and for colored people; Presbyte-rian Weekly Standard, and Quarterly, and the publications• >i the colleges. It is noticeable that as Mec


. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. 25, 1903, with How-ard A. Banks as editor. The first telegraphic news servicereceived in Charlotte was by the old Observer in March,1874. The Observer issues a semi-weekly edition, and theNews also issues a semi-weekly known as the Times-Demo-crat. Besides these are the Mill News, the Peoples and Western Textile Excelsior, Carolina MedicalJournal, Star of Zion by and for colored people; Presbyte-rian Weekly Standard, and Quarterly, and the publications• >i the colleges. It is noticeable that as Mecklenburg has grown richer andmore populous, the farms have increased in number anddecreased in size. The average number of acres in a farmin the county is seventy-five. There is only one which con-lain s more than a thousand acres, and 64 per cent, of themcontain less than one hundred acres. There are 227,995acres of land, and the farms are occupied bv , 290 part owners, 22 owners and tenants, 55 mana-ger-. 131 cash paying tenants and 1,966 share TRANSITION PERIOD; COUNTY COURT HOUSE, 1SS8,


Size: 1294px × 1930px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookauthortompkins, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookyear1903