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Shelby

North Carolina, United States
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Shelby, city, seat (1842) of Cleveland county, in the Piedmont region of southwestern North Carolina, U.S., about 40 miles (65 km) west of Charlotte. The area was originally inhabited by Catawba and Cherokee peoples and was settled after 1760. The city was chartered in 1843 and named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780) during the American Revolution. The arrival of railways in the 1870s stimulated Shelby’s development. Textiles became...

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