Resources

Selected Bibliography

Alexander, J.B.  The History of Mecklenburg County, 1740-1900.  Bowie: Heritage Books, Inc., 1902.

Alexander, J.B. Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years.  Charlotte:  Ray Printing Co., 1908.

Barrett, John G.  The Civil War in North Carolina.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

Barringer, Rufus.  History of the North Carolina Railroad.  Raleigh:  News and Observer Press, 1894.

Black, Robert C.  Railroads of the Confederacy.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Blythe, Legette and Charles Raven Brockmann.  Hornets' Nest:  The Story of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.  Charlotte:  McNally, 1961.

Greenwood, Janette Thomas.  Bittersweet Legacy:  The Black and White Better Classes in Charlotte, 1850-1910.   Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Hanchett, Thomas W.  Sorting Out the New South City:  Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975.   Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Johnson, Guion Griffis.  Antebellum North Carolina:  A Social History.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1937.

King, Victor C.  Story of the Origin of the City of Charlotte.  Charlotte, N.C.:  1954.

Mobley, Joe A., ed.  The Way We Lived in North Carolina.  Chapel Hill:  Published in association with the Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Morrill, Dan L.  The Civil War in the Carolinas.  Charleston, S.C.:  Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 2002.

Morrill, Dan L.  Historic Charlotte:  An Illustrated History of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.  San Antonio, Texas:  Historical Publishing Network, a Division of Lammert Publications, Inc., 2001.

Tompkins, Daniel A.  History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte from 1740 to 1903. 2 vols.   Charlotte:  Observer Printing House, 1903.

Trelease, Allen W.  The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

 

Links

Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission

Charlotte Mecklenburg Story

Documenting the American South

Library of Congress

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina Collection
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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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