The Hoskins Mill was one of the earliest cotton mills owned by Edward A. Smith who, by 1908, was the principal shareholder in North Carolina’s largest textile mill business. 

The stone entry gates of Johnson C. Smith University marked a new name and a new era for Mecklenburg County’s only historic Black university. 

The homestead of the McQuay family for nearly 130 years, the McQuay Farmhouse reflects the once primarily rural character of Mecklenburg County. 

The Mount Carmel Baptist Church congregation grew so rapidly that they needed North Carolina’s first native-born professionally trained architect to design their new sanctuary. 

The Savona Mill is an excellent example of the evolution of both the textile industry and industrial architecture.

The Wadsworth House was the home of prominent local businessman George Pierce Wadsworth (1879-1930). His father John W. Wadsworth.

The Louis Asbury-designed Parkwood Avenue A.R.P. Church building reflects several social and residential shifts within twentieth-century Charlotte.  

Historic properties in Charlotte's Dilworth Neighborhood.

Atherton Cotton Mills was the first cotton mill built and operated by one of Charlotte’s leading late nineteenth century industrialists, Daniel Augustus Tompkins. 

The last surviving mill house of the Atherton Mill village provides a unique insight into mill owner D. A. Tompkins’ philosophy of workforce management.