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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 Sustainable 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.

National Scenic Byways Program This website, maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, includes information on state and nationally designated byway routes throughout America based on their archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic qualities. Visit the America’s Byways Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway website for more ideas.

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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