Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina
Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina
Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina
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<strong>Stanly</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>North</strong> <strong>Carolina</strong> Timeline, cont.<br />
1885:<br />
Norwood Manufacturing Company (now C&A) formed.<br />
1890s:<br />
Cottonville businesses convert to steam-powered machinery.<br />
Whitney Dam project (proceeded Badin Dam).<br />
1891:<br />
Southern Railroad reaches Norwood.<br />
New London created.<br />
1893:<br />
<strong>County</strong> Courthouse built.<br />
1896:<br />
Yadkin Railroad make cotton mills in the cotton fields possible as well as aluminum<br />
production.<br />
1897:<br />
First telephone exchange in Albemarle.<br />
1898:<br />
Wiscasset, Efied Mills started.<br />
1900:<br />
<strong>County</strong> population 15,220.<br />
1910:<br />
Pfeiffer University moves to Misenheimer.<br />
1913:<br />
Railroad through Oakboro.<br />
Badin founded.<br />
1915:<br />
Alcoa Badin Works goes on-line.<br />
Oakboro founded.<br />
1917:<br />
First extension agent arrived.<br />
Badin (Narrows) Dam built, originally the Swift Island Ferry Bridge.<br />
1918:<br />
First Hospital (Badin)<br />
1919:<br />
Road grading begun by <strong>County</strong>.
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