Remembering Charlotte

Click to enlarge pictures	Remembering Charlotte Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950 by Mary Kratt and Mary Manning Boyer
		Copyright (c) 2000 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
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South Tryon Street (not Tyson, as on the card). Charlotte's original main street, Tryon, was the ridgeline artery named for Royal Governor William Tryon of England, who governed North Carolina (1765-71) under King George III. Beyond the few blocks of uptown commercial buildings around the Square (circa 1900), the street was residential and looked like this on both ends of Tryon Street. Note the trolley tracks, farm wagons, carriages, snow, mud, and sidewalks. Postmarked 1907.
Postcards of a New South City, 1905-1950

Got, Alotta, Charlotte!

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