Cleveland County NC Facts

Cleveland Co, NC formed in 1841 from Rutherford & Lincoln Counties. Named for Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a leader of the western Carolina frontier & a hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain

 March 8, 1841 - First county business conducted at the home of William Weathers

 November 8, 1841 - First court held in Cleveland County. Judge Mathis E. Manley presides

 1842 - Shelby established as the county seat. Named after Colonel Isaac Shelby, also a hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain

 May 12, 1861 - Daniel Brooks, free black man joins the Confederate Army

 1871 - Double Shoals Yarn Mill opens

 1873 - Cleveland Cotton Mill Number One opens on Knob Creek, also known as Schenk, Ramsaur & Company

 February 11, 1874 - Town of Kings Mountain chartered

 1888 - Cleveland Cotton Mill Number Two opens at Lawndale

 1899 - Lawndale Baptist Church organized

 1899 - Lawndale Railroad & Industrial Company in business

 January 31, 1907 - Kings Mountain Savings & Loan incorporated

 January 2, 1911 - A.V. Wray store opens for business

 January 28, 1911 - The improved Order of Red Man Club held a dance on the court square

 February 6, 1911 - Patterson Springs Hotel sold at auction. Never re-opens

 June 27, 1911 - J.W. Hogue invents the cotton seed separator

 1912 - Cleveland Cotton Mill Number One closes

 April 20, 1922 - First radio comes to Cleveland County

 1927 - E. D. Bridges Mercantile opens in Lawndale

 February 28, 1928 - The Central Hotel burns. Three people killed

 August 28, 1928 - First National building crashes. Six people killed

 June 15, 1931 - Cleveland County cited as Model County by State Legislature

 June 25, 1931 - Women selected to serve on jury duty for the first time in Cleveland County

 September 1, 1935 - First automobile driver's license issued

 September 15, 1936 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Shelby

 January 4, 1945 - Senator Clyde R. Hoey began his second term in Congress twenty-five years after his first term ended.

 October 2, 1948 - Wesson Cafe opens in Lawndale

 March 12, 1953 - Radio station WKMT in Kings Mountain went on the air at 6AM

 ? - Dennis Jones builds first new house in Double Shoals in 100 years

 May 4, 2001 - Cleveland Cotton Mill Number Two closes

 

 

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