North Charlotte
Charlotte’s link to the South’s textile past, dotted with old cotton mills, warehouses, rail lines and trucking depots. The area’s commercial core - around North Davidson and 36th streets - is “historic North Charlotte.” The “main streets” of the old mill villages, which sprang up earlier this century, are still around – cotton was the county’s chief economic fuel until the 1940s. Highlights: Self-named “NoDa” (for North Davidson) artists’ district. As housing and office costs spiral upward in and around uptown, artists and other risk-takers have moved to this area, still a quick trip from the center city.
Look for: Charlotte’s railroad terminal (on North Tryon Street); one of the area’s oldest churches, Sugaw Creek Presbyterian, built in the 1760s, and a one-room school (considered one of the area’s oldest remaining buildings) built shortly afterward.
