Cleveland County NC Facts
Cleveland Co, NC formed in 1841 from
Rutherford & Lincoln Counties. Named for Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a
leader of the western Carolina frontier & a hero at the Battle of Kings
Mountain
March 8,
1841 - First county business conducted at the home of William Weathers
November 8,
1841 - First court held in Cleveland County. Judge Mathis E. Manley
presides
1842 -
Shelby established as the county seat. Named after Colonel Isaac Shelby,
also a hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain
May 12, 1861
- Daniel Brooks, free black man joins the Confederate Army
1871 -
Double Shoals Yarn Mill opens
1873 -
Cleveland Cotton Mill Number One opens on Knob Creek, also known as
Schenk, Ramsaur & Company
February 11,
1874 - Town of Kings Mountain chartered
1888 -
Cleveland Cotton Mill Number Two opens at Lawndale
1899 -
Lawndale Baptist Church organized
1899 -
Lawndale Railroad & Industrial Company in business
January 31,
1907 - Kings Mountain Savings & Loan incorporated
January 2,
1911 - A.V. Wray store opens for business
January 28,
1911 - The improved Order of Red Man Club held a dance on the court
square
February 6,
1911 - Patterson Springs Hotel sold at auction. Never re-opens
June 27,
1911 - J.W. Hogue invents the cotton seed separator
1912 -
Cleveland Cotton Mill Number One closes
April 20,
1922 - First radio comes to Cleveland County
1927 - E. D.
Bridges Mercantile opens in Lawndale
February 28,
1928 - The Central Hotel burns. Three people killed
August 28,
1928 - First National building crashes. Six people killed
June 15,
1931 - Cleveland County cited as Model County by State Legislature
June 25,
1931 - Women selected to serve on jury duty for the first time in
Cleveland County
September 1,
1935 - First automobile driver's license issued
September
15, 1936 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Shelby
January 4,
1945 - Senator Clyde R. Hoey began his second term in Congress
twenty-five years after his first term ended.
October 2,
1948 - Wesson Cafe opens in Lawndale
March 12,
1953 - Radio station WKMT in Kings Mountain went on the air at 6AM
? - Dennis
Jones builds first new house in Double Shoals in 100 years
May 4, 2001
- Cleveland Cotton Mill Number Two closes
