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My Hometown..... Dilworth
Escape southward and enter Dilworth, Charlotte's first streetcar suburb. Streetcars were always Uptown but Dilworth was our first "streetcar suburb". South Blvd. was the industrial corridor complete with business', housing and mills, and Dilworth was developed for these people as well as for the folks in town, because it came complete with an amusement park, a lake and all sorts of regularly scheduled events. Dilworth grew with a diverse group of people. Mill houses were built by mill owners for the workers and mansions were built for the upper set as well as every type of house in between. It remains that type of neighborhood today. The amusement park is gone, the lake is also gone. They were built to support the street cars going into Dilworth but when the streetcars were replaced by buses, the need was gone. Wilmore
Wilmore, to the west of Dilworth is a neighborhood with similar housing styles to Dilworth but has remained mostly black since the beginning. Southend
Stuck between Dilworth and Wilmore is Southend, the industrial business corridor between South Blvd. and South Tryon St. Recently, the mills and other old industrial building that were vacant for many years, have seen a revitalization of sorts. Property that was cheap 10 years ago is hard to come by now. Cherry
Cherry was the first neighborhood built
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