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It encompasses 649 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Gastonia. The district includes the five-story brick Loray Mill (1900, 1901, 1921-1922) and all or parts of some thirty blocks of frame mill houses constructed primarily between the early 1900s and the 1920s.
The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, North Carolina, was a notable strike action in the labor history of the United States.Though largely unsuccessful in attaining its goals of better working conditions and wages, the strike was considered successful in a lasting way; it caused an immense controversy which gave the labor movement momentum in the South.
Gastonia: 20: Gastonia High School: Gastonia High School: March 17, 1983 : S. York St. Gastonia: 21: Hoyle House: Hoyle House: October 21, 1993 : NC 275 south side, 1,400 feet (430 m) southwest of the south fork of the Catawba River
Gastonia is the most populous city in and the county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, behind Concord. The population was 80,411 in the 2020 census, up from 71,741 in 2010. [7] [8] Gastonia is the 13th-most populous city in North Carolina.
The county seat is Gastonia. [2] Dallas served as the original county seat from 1846 until 1911. Gaston County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,805,115 in 2023. [3] The county is located in the southern Piedmont region.
In 1908, a 15-year-old girl from Vance County shook off her dreary life of cotton-mill work in one daring moment at the NC State Fair, where she climbed inside the basket of a hot-air balloon ...
In 1985, Uli Bennewitz pushed a change in the North Carolina law books. This change made it legal for a brewpub to exist under state laws. The next year (1986) Bennewitz opened NC's first brewpub, Weeping Radish Bavarian Restaurant. On August 13, 2005, House Bill 392 from the NC General Assembly was signed by then-Governor Mike Easley.
Olde Raleigh Distillery is a microdistillery that specializes in blending different small batch whiskey recipes together to create unique flavors. [2] The distillery sources its whiskey nationally from five states: North Carolina, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wyoming. [1] Once gathered, the whiskey is stored and aged in barrels at the ...