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Jun 8, 1990 · “For a whole lot of us,” Smyth concludes, “Beatties Ford Road is a link to who we are.”
Jul 1, 2020 · by QCity Metro Staff July 1, 2020. Frye Gaillard, former Southern editor at the Charlotte Observer, wrote in a 1990 article that “on its meandering journey of 15 miles, Beatties Ford Road has long been a symbol of tradition and hope.”. As a teenager from Charleston, who came to Johnson C. Smith University on a tennis scholarship in the ...
Nov 2, 2021 · Her reminder sits on the corner of LaSalle and Beatties Ford Road. “This is the beginning, this is where it started, and even after, what 40-50 years, the memory is still here,” said Kisha. In the 1970s in Charlotte, John McDonald was known as the man who built up Beatties Ford Road. In 1971, he opened “McDonald’s Cafeteria.”.
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Jan 5, 2022 · Now he’s creating them. What’s happening: Change is underway at Beatties Ford Road and LaSalle Street, with the transformation of 2020 and 2023 Beatties Ford Road, two commercial properties owned by Dennis’ E-Fix Development Corp. 2023 Beatties Ford Road’s anchor tenant, Chase bank, opened on Nov. 4, 2021. BW Sweets, a Black-owned ...
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Beatties Ford Road, which provides a direct route into uptown Charlotte via West Trade Street, has served as a central corridor for the city’s African American community for decades. Established along that thoroughfare in 1876, the campus of Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) offered a uniquely appropriate genesis from which the community grew and ...
Dalebrook was designed and built by Charles Ervin, a Charlotte-based developer whose Ervin Construction Company became the nation’s seventh largest homebuilder by the 1960s. The neighborhood launched in 1960 and quickly sold out within its first year. The self-contained community (located within the larger Lincoln Heights neighborhood) was the prem...
In the 1920s, the Southern Realty and Development Corporation initially developed the Lincoln Heights neighborhood as a subdivision for white Charlotteans, and even attempted to lure Durham’s Duke University to relocate to Charlotte’s West End. Those efforts proved unsuccessful, leaving the neighborhood largely undeveloped until the post-World War ...
McCrorey Heights, located northeast of the JCSU campus, just adjacent to the I-77/I-277 exchange, started in 1912, thanks to the efforts of then-JCSU president Reverend Henry L. McCrorey, who served the University in that capacity for forty years. The neighborhood grew quickly between the early 1950s and early 1970s into what historian Tom Hanchett...
Just north of McCrorey Heights lies Oaklawn Park, another neighborhood designed and built by Charles Ervin and his Ervin Construction Company, which dates back to 1954. According to Dr. Hanchett, the neighborhood was constructed specifically for African-American families during the waning days of racial segregation, and is one of Charlotte’s best-p...
Containing hundreds of homes, University Park is a large neighborhood that grew in stages starting in the late 1950s. That piecemeal growth complicated initial efforts to identify a definitive boundary of the neighborhood. Using recorded subdivision maps, HLC Staff and the historical consultant were able to develop this boundary map of the historic...
One of the oldest neighborhoods along the Beatties Ford Road corridor, Washington Heights was actually a Charlotte suburb that symbolized the growing economic strength of the city’s African American community when it opened in the early 1910s. As Charlotte expanded, what was once suburb became city, and the Washington Heights neighborhood offered a...
Jun 14, 2021 · The Beatties Ford Road community in West Charlotte has a deep history in the city. And although you can see its history around every corner, the former prospering pocket of the community is now diminishing. The intersection of Beatties Ford Road and LaSalle Street is now littered with pictures and mementos of murder victims.
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Jun 18, 2021 · In the Beatties Ford Road area, last year's violence is still in the hearts and minds of many community members. Leaning against a tree on Beatties Ford this week, Mario Black pointed to tire ...
