Wholesale Charlotte Then and Now®: Brandon Lunsford

Coffee Table Book •HC•b&w illustrations •Charlotte Then and Now is one of the latest revised 'Then and Now' titles in the bestselling series It pairs vintage pictures of Charlotte and its growing suburbs with pictures of the sites as they look today. Charlotte has become the fastest-growing city in the Southeast. Home to two of the three major banks in the United States, it has gained major prominence as a financial center. It began as one of several small courthouse villages in the Carolina Piedmont but grew after the discovery of gold nearby. In the years following the Civil War Charlotte became a symbol of the New South transitioning from agriculture to industrialism at the heart of the pidemont's textile industry. By the turn of the century, skyscrapers, department stores, and congested streets testified to the expansion of the little crossroads village of the early 1800s. This easily accessible history of Charlotte is told using vi Case Weight: 30.31lb