When was lincolnton nc established

So much building was occurring that the state granted an extension of the original town grid from to sites that included land for a newly chartered academy for boys. Three entrepreneurs began the first cotton mill in the state, ordering some machinery from Rhode Island and shaping the remainder at local foundries. By that time, Vardry McBee was clerk of the county court, a prosperous merchant, substantial farmer and the father of five children.

But he visited the area several times, liked its water power and location, and when Alston offered easy terms he was eager to move on to the black soil of Alabama , McBee borrowed the money to buy most of the little courthouse village.

He continued, however, to live in Lincolnton. But he applied to his new acreage what he had observed in Lincolnton. When local citizens asked for land for academies for boys and girls, he donated 30 acres. McBee was equally responsive to requests by Greenville congregations for land.

As an experienced merchant and tanner, he also built a store on Main Street Irvine and McBee which sold a wide range of dry goods and staples. It had a columned portico and provided meeting rooms on the second and third floors. He also started a tannery and erected a stone grist mill next to the brick one at Main Street. As a builder, he needed supplies, so he established a brickyard at modern-day Hudson Street using clay from the Reedy River, a quarry for stone, and a sawmill for lumber.

Cleveland, Catawba, and Gaston counties were all culled out of Lincoln, and with these counties also went numerous mills and farms. There are notable historical landmarks in Lincoln County. The Vesuvius Furnace, the Andrew Loretz House the oldest brick structure in Lincoln County , and Woodside are all late eighteenth century structures within the area. Also, there are numerous structures from the s in Lincoln County.

Ingleside is an antebellum mansion that was designed by the famed architect, Benjamin Latrobe. The Pleasant Retreat Academy c. By , the number if town lots had expanded from the original to The sale of town lots provided for the construction, ca.

Several years later a female academy was constructed Brown and York, Lincolnton continued to grow. According to the Lincoln Courier, by five attorneys maintained offices along East Main Street, six physicians had their offices along both East and West Main Street, and merchants surrounded the courthouse. Additionally, the town supported four hotels, four grocers, three tailors, a watchmaker and jeweler, a printer, three saddle and harness makers, five coach factories, five blacksmiths, a cabinetmaker, two tanners, two hat manufacturers, two shoemakers, and a coppersmith, as well as five carpenters and two brick masons Brown and York, If you prefer not to leave an email address, check back at your NCpedia comment for a reply.

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