The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗With growth resulting from the expansion of suburban communities around Charlotte, Red Cross incorporated on August 1, 2002. The people wanted to keep their area agricultural and rural to the extent that it was possible.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Red Cross’s history is told.
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Before
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Red Cross is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Red Cross has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Reed Gold Mine in Locust, 6.5 miles away.
Red Cross and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Reed Gold Mine’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Red Cross?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Red Cross’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.