A history of McColl,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of McColl from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗This area is within territory occupied by the Pee Dee of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture for several hundred years. Among their earthwork monuments is Town Creek Indian Mound, an important regional ceremonial site that was occupied from about 1150 to 1400 CE in Montgomery County, North Carolina, before they abandoned it for unknown reasons. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966, the only American Indian site so honored in the state. In 2017, the Pee Dee Indian Tribe officially began work on the Pee Dee Tribal Mounds located on tribal land in McColl.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish McColl’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMcColl - Marlboro Cotton Mills, M…, c. 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from McColl
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CommonsMcColl - Marlboro Cotton Mills, Mill No. 1c. 1908 · postcard
CommonsMcColl - Marlboro Cotton Mills, Mill No. 2c. 1908 · postcard
CommonsMcColl - Presbyterian Church1908 · postcard
CommonsMcColl - Tatum Avenue, looking west 01c. 1908 · postcard
CommonsMcColl - Tatum Avenue, looking west 02c. 1908 · postcard
CommonsMcColl - Tatum Avenue, looking westc. 1908 · postcard
1990s
Nothing in McColl is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean McColl has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Manship Farmstead in Tatum, 3 miles away.
McColl and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as McColl - Marlboro Cotton Mills, Mill No. 1 (c. 1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.