Edward Dilworth Latta

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1. 1851 · 1851-05-04

   Edward Dilworth Latta was born on May 4, 1851 in Pendleton, South Carolina, and moved to Charlotte in 1876 after working as a clothing salesman in New York.

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2. 1890 · 1890-01-01

   The Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company, nicknamed the 'Four Cs' after its initials, was established in 1890 by real-estate developer Edward Dilworth Latta, Mayor F.B. McDowell, and four other Charlotte residents to build streetcar-driven suburban development.

   Charlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric Railway

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3. 1891

   Beyond Dilworth, Edward Dilworth Latta went on to partner with tobacco magnate J.B. Duke to construct the Mercantile Building on First Street, and separately built the Latta Arcade and Latonia Building on South Tryon Street, and donated more than 40 acres for Charlotte public parkland without racial restrictions.

   James B. DukeWilliam Tryon

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4. 1891

   Edward Dilworth Latta purchased roughly 1,000 acres on Charlotte's southern outskirts and named the resulting development 'Dilworth' in memory of his grandmother, positioning it as Charlotte's first streetcar suburb.

   Charlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric Railway

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5. 1891

   Latta Park opened in 1891 as an amusement and recreation ground built by the 4Cs at the streetcar line's terminus in Dilworth, featuring a lake, pavilion, greenhouse, and picnic grounds designed to draw streetcar riders — and prospective lot buyers — out to the new suburb.

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   Latta ParkCharlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric RailwayMarshall ParkElectric Park

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6. 1891 · 1891-05-20

   To draw crowds to Dilworth's opening day on May 20, 1891, Edward Dilworth Latta arranged a championship semipro baseball game at the newly built Latta Park between teams from Winston, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina — the park's first game, played at its grand opening.

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   Latta ParkMarshall Park

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7. 1903

   Charles Johnston and William Holt chartered the North Carolina Realty Company, with the help of developer Edward Dilworth Latta, who arranged for a trolley line to connect the new North Charlotte mill village to downtown Charlotte.

   Alpha MillMecklenburg Cotton MillAda MillOrient MillVictor Cotton MillCharles Worth JohnstonWilliam Holt

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8. 1905

   The 4Cs held an effective monopoly on Charlotte's streetcar and power business until 1905, when James B. Duke established the rival Southern Power Company; Latta ultimately sold his streetcar/power business to Southern Power in 1910.

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   Charlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric RailwayQueen City Drug StoreSouthern Power CompanyJames B. Duke

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9. 1911

   In 1911, two decades after Dilworth's initial 1891 opening, Latta commissioned the nationally known Olmsted landscape architecture firm to design an approximately 400-acre expansion of the neighborhood with curving, non-grid streets — a distinct design departure from the original 1891 street grid.

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10. 1925 · 1925-07-14

    Edward Dilworth Latta died of a stroke in Asheville, NC on July 14, 1925, two years after relocating there for his health in 1923; his will established endowments exceeding one million dollars for Union Theological Seminary and Gastonia hospitals.

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