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Charlotte NC 1950
Map by City Engineering Department, drafted for the Chamber of Commerce. The faintly dotted streets are alleys, which were city maintained, named and signed as recently as the 1960s (or in a very few instances, the 1990s), but were not named and fully mapped on this map due to scale /space concerns.
Most of those streets or alleyways were gradually abandoned or downloaded back to private maintainence between 1950 and 1990; a great number of them still exist (like the unsigned Garland Court, or Garland Alley, which separates Spirit Square and The Public Library, or #43, Dixie Alley, which runs behind the Wells Fargo Bldg between the 100 blocks of 3rd and 4th Street), though they are unsigned, unmarked on any maps at this point in time, and aren't generally known by those names by anyone.
The large area south of East Trade Street, and east of South College Street, and situated along both sides of Independence Blvd (now East Stonewall St) is Brooklyn, the oldest historically African-American neighborhood in Charlotte. The neighborhood was razed during the late 1960s. The northern part of the tract was redeveloped into Marshall Park in the early 1970s.
The southern part of the tract, along with the area east of Mc Dowell Street sat vacant (with parts of abandoned streets cutting through the tract) for more than a decade, until the John Belk Freeway / I-277 was built, in two phases, across what remained of the land during the 1980s.
Charlotte NC 1950
Map by City Engineering Department, drafted for the Chamber of Commerce. The faintly dotted streets are alleys, which were city maintained, named and signed as recently as the 1960s (or in a very few instances, the 1990s), but were not named and fully mapped on this map due to scale /space concerns.
Most of those streets or alleyways were gradually abandoned or downloaded back to private maintainence between 1950 and 1990; a great number of them still exist (like the unsigned Garland Court, or Garland Alley, which separates Spirit Square and The Public Library, or #43, Dixie Alley, which runs behind the Wells Fargo Bldg between the 100 blocks of 3rd and 4th Street), though they are unsigned, unmarked on any maps at this point in time, and aren't generally known by those names by anyone.
The large area south of East Trade Street, and east of South College Street, and situated along both sides of Independence Blvd (now East Stonewall St) is Brooklyn, the oldest historically African-American neighborhood in Charlotte. The neighborhood was razed during the late 1960s. The northern part of the tract was redeveloped into Marshall Park in the early 1970s.
The southern part of the tract, along with the area east of Mc Dowell Street sat vacant (with parts of abandoned streets cutting through the tract) for more than a decade, until the John Belk Freeway / I-277 was built, in two phases, across what remained of the land during the 1980s.