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Charlotte had a 1910 population of 34,014. It's current population is slightly over 725,000. The county - Mecklenburg County - was a little over 67,000. Wilmington, on the NC coast was in it's last decade as North Carolina's largest city. Mecklenburg County's current population is just shy of 950,000 now. Current population density countywide is 556 per square mile; current city population density is a little over 900 per square mile.
In 1910 the population was concentrated in the original 4 wards (inside the present-day I-277 uptown loop), plus the African-American neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was constructed immediately south of 3rd Ward. The 1st 'suburbs' - Dilworth, Myers Park and Wilmore were south of there and were being built at around the same time, or shortly before.
Valdez was a mining and port town of around 800 people, having been established twenty years earlier as a tent city by prospective gold miners. By 1912 it was the main port for supplies going to the Interior of Alaska and home to an important military installation in the Territory, although the lone road out of town was only open in the summer due to the difficulty of plowing the road through Thompson Pass, which averages 46 feet of snow per year. It was located three miles east of its current location, on the edge of a wide glacial river, and apparently suffered from regular floods.
Valdez was a busy town in the first two decades of the 20th century. It supported a bowling alley, a university (for one semester), several breweries, a dam and hydroelectric plant, a sawmill, the seat of (The Territory of) Alaska's Third Judicial District, a bank, two movie theaters, two newspapers, an Ursaline convent and an excellent public library, hospital and public school system. In addition to the main industries of mining and shipping, fox farming, fishing, and tourism provided additional employment and revenues.
Heck, we don't have a bowling alley, movie theater, or brewery now!
In 1912 Bellingham had about 25,000 people. Just a few years before it was four smaller towns, but in 1903 they merged to form Bellingham. I guess it was a pretty typical town for the time in this part of the country. Mostly fish canneries, lumber mills, and shipyards.
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Lexington has a good sized city in 1912 with 47,000 residents, though it had by far been surpassed by Louisville and Cincinnati, cities it was equal to until the mid 1800s. Agriculture was still very important, especially the tobacco industry. Population growth was slowed in this period by huge numbers of Blacks, who were half the city's population in 1860, were leaving for better jobs and more freedom in nearby Northern cities.
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Love that train coming right thru the middle of the city!
