Dr. Dan L. Morrill
Dr. Dan L. Morrill is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
and also is consulting director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission.
Dr. Morrill's contribution to the internet included the following
- A Historical Walking Tour of Charlotte
- Myers Park: Charlotte's Most Elegant
Streetcar Suburb - The growth and expansion of Charlotte in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were intimately bound
up with the installation and development of its streetcar network. Streetcars
initially appeared in Charlotte in January 1887, when a horse-drawn, later
mule-drawn, system commenced operations.
- Daniel Harvey Hill - The Formative Years.
- On September 25, 1889, a passenger train pulled slowly out of Charlotte,
North Carolina at approximately 7:30 a.m. and began hissing and screeching
its way toward the small college town of Davidson about 20 miles to the
north. It was to be a somber journey. Daniel Harvey Hill, called "Harvey"
by his friends, who according to historian Shelby Foote had seen "about
as much combat as any general on either side" in the Civil War, had
died the previous afternoon of stomach cancer, and his corpse was being
transported to its final resting place.
- Seaboard Air Line - Listen carefully! Can
you hear the ghosts of the engineers, conductors, and brakemen jumping
from the trains and walking slowly toward the dormitory on the second floor
of the Seaboard Station to catch a few hours of jittery sleep before heading
back for places like Rutherfordton, Hamlet, or Wilmington? The overalls
of these hard-boiled workmen are covered with splotches of oil, grime and
soot. Perspiration drips from their bodies as clouds of scorching steam
spew from the now-motionless engines parked behind them along the track.
Dr. Morrill will be producing a twice-a-year journal on Charlotte-Mecklenburg History. The subscription price would be $30 per year or $15 per copy. If you are interested or want to be put on Dr. Morrill's mailing list send him an email.