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section:
Links to Shelby Tourism, History and Preservation
Websites
Links to Websites of Places Featured in this Itinerary
Selected Bibliography for Shelby and Cleveland County
Links
to Shelby Tourism, History and Preservation Websites
Uptown
Shelby Association
Organized in 1982 to coordinate downtown revitalization efforts in Shelby,
the USA website provides information on dining, shopping, events, the
arts and revitalization of Shelby.
Historic
Shelby Foundation
Established in 1982 to protect and preserve the architectural and historical
integrity that best defines Shelby and Cleveland County.
City of
Shelby
Find out more about this city which strives to be the best governed
and most livable city in North Carolina, placing value on high quality
services, its citizens and employees.
Cleveland
County Chamber of Commerce
Find travel and tourism information for the entire county.
Cleveland
County
Learn more about the county and the services it offers as the gateway
between Asheville and Charlotte.
North
Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
This state office assists private citizens, private institutions, local
governments, and agencies of state and federal government in the identification,
evaluation, protection, and enhancement of properties significant in
North Carolina history and archaeology.
Preservation
North Carolina
The private, non-profit statewide organization protects and promotes
buildings, sites, and landscapes important to the diverse heritage of
North Carolina. Through its award-winning endangered properties program,
Preservation NC acquires endangered historic properties and then finds
purchasers willing and able to rehabilitate them.
State of North
Carolina
Visit the gateway to government services for the State of North Carolina.
Kings Mountain National Military
Park
Learn more about this national park that commemorates a pivotal and
significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during
the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.
Overmountain Victory National Historic
Trail
Commemorates the campaign leading to the battle of Kings Mountain by
following the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia,
today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Shelby
City Park Carrousel Friends Inc.
Built in 1919, the Shelby City Park Carrousel operates year round and
is one of five restored all-wood carrousels in North Carolina, and one
of only 150 across the country.
Broad River Greenway
The Broad River Grenway protects, preserves and enhances the natural
and cultural resources surrounding the Broad River as it passes through
Cleveland County for educational and recreational opportunities.
North
Carolina Main Street Center
Communities turn to the North Carolina Main Street Center for assistance
as they work to reinforce and rekindle the economic vitality and values
that Main Street stands for.
National
Main Street Center
Since 1980, the National Main Street Center has been working with communities
across the nation to revitalize their historic or traditional commercial
areas. Based in historic preservation, the Main Street approach was
developed to save historic commercial architecture and the fabric of
American communities' built environment, but has become a powerful economic
development tool as well.
Rebuild
America
This network of community-driven voluntary partnerships fosters energy
efficiency and renewable energy in commercial, government and public-housing
buildings. The Uptown Shelby Association participating in this network
by prioritizing energy conservation measures that will result in increased
overall commerce.
National Trust
for Historic Preservation
Learn about the programs of and membership in the oldest national nonprofit
preservation organization.
National Park Service Office of
Tourism
National Parks have been interwoven with tourism from their earliest
days. This website highlights the ways in which the National Park Service
promotes and supports sustainable, responsible, informed, and managed
visitor use through cooperation and coordination with the tourism industry.
Links
to Websites of Places Featured in this Itinerary
Shelby
Post Office (Cleveland County Arts Council)
Gardner-Webb
University
Central
United Methodist Church
Selected Bibliography
for Shelby and Cleveland County
Bishir, Catherine W. North Carolina Architecture. Chapel Hill,
North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Bishir, Catherine W. and Micheal T. Southern. A Guide to the Historic
Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina:
University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Bishir, Catherine W. and Lawrence S. Earley, eds. Early Twentieth-Century
Suburbs in North Carolina: Essays on History, Architecture and Planning.
Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1985.
Eades, Brian R. and J. Daniel Pezzoni, ed. Architectural Perspectives
of Cleveland County, North Carolina. Shelby, North Carolina: Cleveland
County Historic Preservation Taskforce, 2004.
Lane, Mills. Architecture of the Old South: North Carolina.
Savannah, Georgia: Beehive Press, 1997.
Larimore, Denise and Jennifer Kibby. Central Shelby Historic District
Walking Tour Brochure. Shelby, North Carolina: Historic Shelby Foundation
and Uptown Shelby Association, 1992.
Marler, James D. Coordinator. The Heritage of Cleveland County Vol.
1-1982. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Hunter Publishing Company,
1982.
Patterson, U.L. "Rusty" and Barry E. Hambright. Images of America:
Shelby and Cleveland County North Carolina. Arcadia Publishing:
Great Britain, 2002.
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