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    Concord

    By Michael Eury and Helen Arthur-Cornett

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    When state legislator Stephen Cabarrus sought a compromise between quarreling Scotch-Irish and German settlers over the location of Cabarrus County's seat, his appeal led to a "concord" that gave birth to one of North Carolina's most charming cities. Not long after its 1796 founding, Concord began a transformation from an agricultural community into a textile-manufacturing mecca as captains of industry built empires exploiting the cotton that so abundantly sprouted from the region's fruitful soil. By the advent of the 1900s, textiles' prosperity encouraged an architectural renaissance within Concord's downtown, where the stately buildings, churches, and residences still stand today. While the cotton mills that made Concord famous are no more, the city has transitioned into a fast-paced motorsports center and the home of North Carolina's most popular tourist destination, Concord Mills shopping mall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439626719
    Concord
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    Michael Eury

    Images of America: Concord includes roughly 200 photographs and images that were culled from the Concord Museum archives and private collections. Michael Eury, executive director of Historic Cabarrus Association and a Concord native, weaves a spellbinding web of unforgettable portraits that celebrates the civic pride, hard work, moral integrity, and natural beauty that helped earn Concord the National Civic League�s �All-America City� Award in 2004.

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      Concord - Michael Eury

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      INTRODUCTION

      Despite being the home of North Carolina’s two most popular tourist attractions—Concord Mills (the state’s largest shopping center) and the Charlotte Motor Speedway—Concord remains, at heart, a small town of traditional values. Cradled within the sweeping hills of the lush Piedmont, the city is considered by many to be God’s Country. While other verdant regions might also lay claim to that title, the omnipresence of church steeples punctuating Concord gives testament to the spiritual foundation upon which this community was built.

      Seeking religious freedom, German and Scotch-Irish settlers established roots in what would become the Concord area beginning in the mid-1700s. The region made history on May 2, 1771, when nine local young patriots with soot-camouflaged faces (today renowned as the Cabarrus Black Boys) made what was perhaps the nation’s first strike against the British Crown.

      Near the end of the 18th century, a new county—Cabarrus, named after Stephen Cabarrus, a French immigrant who helped resolve disputes among the colonists as the state’s eloquent speaker of the House of Commons—was formed after these pioneers broke off from Mecklenberg County. Cabarrus once again turned local discord into concord when the statesman appealed to the founders to find a compromise in the selection of their county seat.

      In April of 1796, 26 acres of land between Three Mile Branch and the Indian Trading Path became the city of Concord, also called Conkord or Concord Town in some early documents. Three years later, not far away from Concord in the Midland area of Cabarrus County, the first-documented gold discovery in the United States occurred at what today is known as Reed Gold Mine.

      Cotton grew robustly in western Cabarrus County’s blackjack soil, pointing Concord beyond its agricultural base toward its first industry: textiles. The city’s original textile mill, the Concord Cotton Factory, began operation in 1839 just north of the city limits in what became known in 1887 as the township of Forest Hill (Forest Hill incorporated into Concord two years later). From this plant, known at this writing as the residential/business-hybrid Locke Mill Plaza, blossomed one of the city’s cherished hallmarks, the stately Victorian homes of North Union Street that lead into downtown. Nestled under the shade of a canopy of elm and oak trees, these houses remain vibrant today on what is one of the most beautiful streets in the South.

      The next boon to the burgeoning city was the railroad, built in the early 1850s on the west side of Concord, on what became known as Depot Street (now Cabarrus Avenue). Cotton and cloth products could now be easily transported into and out of town.

      Between 1861 and 1865, the Civil War temporarily slowed Concord’s business growth, but after a short occupation by U.S. forces during Reconstruction, textiles once again began to thrive. By the late 1800s, entrepreneurs such as John M. Odell, James W. Cannon, and Warren C. Coleman became wealthy as mills mushroomed throughout the city. Textiles’ prosperity illuminated the city’s streets and homes in 1888 when Concord’s first electrical system was switched on. Also that year, the Concord National Bank was established with Confederate veteran Daniel Branson Coltrane as its

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