Urban Design

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Charlotte Observer online from 1886 to the present.

Includes obituaries, stocks, editorials and first-hand accounts of events.

Sanborn Maps are large scale plans of a city or a town, drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch. These historical maps from 1867–1970 list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made.