Belmont, North Carolina Belmont, North Carolina Belmont is a small suburban town/city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, positioned about 15 miles (24 km) west of uptown Charlotte and 9 miles (14 km) east of Gastonia.
The populace was 10,076 at the 2010 census. Once known as Garibaldi Station, the name change for Belmont is disputed.
The abbot could see Crowder's mountain from the property and titled the town Belmont - "beautiful mountain". Belmont is home to Belmont Abbey College.
Nestled in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina, the town of Belmont is bordered by two rivers, the Catawba River and its right tributary, the South Fork Catawba River.
Next to to Belmont, the rivers make up two arms of Lake Wylie and form a peninsula on which the town/city is situated.
Eastern parts of Belmont north of the Norfolk Southern Railway belong to the Catawba Heights watershed, while those to the south are in the Paw Creek watershed.
Areas of unincorporated South Point Township south of Belmont belong to the Neal Branch-Beaverdam Creek watershed. Settlement in the Belmont region began around the colonial-era Fort at the Point, assembled in the 1750s by Dutch settler James Kuykendall and the rest near the junction of the South Fork and the Catawba River. The fort was assembled because of ongoing hostilities with the Cherokee, but it was apparently never attacked.
The South Point Community, positioned about 2 miles south of present-day downtown Belmont, was the site of Stowesville Mill. Founded by Jasper Stowe and Associates in 1853, it was one of the first three cotton mills in operation in Gaston County. The territory was then donated to the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for the establishment of a theological improve and school. Belmont Abbey, officially titled "Mary Help of Christians Abbey", was established in 1876 by Bishop Leo Haid, and still functions today.
The abbey operates Belmont Abbey College, a liberal arts college.
The organization of Chronicle Mills in 1901 marked the beginning of Belmont's evolution as a textile center.
(1866 1963), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe (1868 1956), and Abel Caleb Lineberger (1859 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had established Gaston County's first textile mill, the Woodlawn, or "Pinhook", Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1848).
Chronicle was the first of the nearly twenty mills assembled in Belmont through 1930, expanding the town populace to 3,793.
The Belmont Abbey Bascilica, Belmont Abbey Historic District, Belmont Historic District, Belmont Hosiery Mill, and U.S.
Belmont, like the majority of metros/cities in North Carolina, has a council-manager government, with a mayor and a five-member town/city council.
Belmont has its own police and fire departments which operate inside the town/city limits.
Fire protection in the unincorporated areas south of Belmont is handled by the South Point Volunteer Fire Department (2001 Southpoint Rd.), in areas southwest of Belmont by the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department (4804 S.
New Hope Rd.), and in areas north of Belmont by Community VFD (1873 Perfection Ave.).
Belmont is in South Point Township.
The textile trade was once the core of Belmont's economy, but due to most textile facilities moving overseas, Belmont's motto "The City of Diversified Textiles" is no longer relevant.
Even with the loss of the textile plants, Belmont continues to expanded in population.
Its adjacency to the large, fast-growing town/city of Charlotte has made Belmont an attractive place to live for new inhabitants moving into the Charlotte area; Belmont's downtown commercial occupancy rate is 100%. Allen Steam Station on Lake Wylie (the Catawba River) south of Belmont.
A spur off the S-Line carries coal to Duke Energy's Allen Steam Station south of Belmont.
Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is Belmont's commuter bus provider to Charlotte.
It is athwart the Catawba River in Mecklenburg County, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Belmont.
Public education in Belmont is administered by the Gaston County Schools enhance school system.
Public schools in Belmont include: Belmont Central Elementary School, grades 2-5 North Belmont Elementary School (graduates feed into either Belmont Middle School, Stanley Middle School or Mount Holly Middle School) Catawba Heights Elementary (has a Belmont mailing address, but is actually inside the Mount Holly town/city limits - graduates feed into either Belmont or Mount Holly Middle Schools) Belmont Middle School - graduates feed into either South Point High School, or Stuart W.
Cramer High School in Belmont.
South Point High School - The school receives students from Belmont, and easterly unincorporated South Point Township.
Private schools in Belmont include the middle school and high school programs of Gaston Christian School.
The school has been renting facilities at the former ground of Sacred Heart College in Belmont since 1994.
New middle school and high school facilities are presently under assembly at Gaston Christian School's ground in Lowell.
The Belmont Branch of the Gaston County Public Library serves this community. There are presently two universities in Belmont.
Belmont Abbey College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and the Order of Saint Benedict.
Mary's College in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey (the name changed to Belmont Abbey College in 1913).
With the method of Sacred Heart College (see below), Belmont Abbey is the only college in North Carolina affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
Gaston College is a improve college serving Gaston County.
Belmont is home to one of Gaston College's three campuses, the Kimbrell (East) Campus.
The Center began operations in 1943 as the North Carolina Vocational Textile School, later retitled the North Carolina Center for Applied Textile Technology.
Sacred Heart College, a women's college affiliated with the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of Mercy, formerly directed in Belmont.
After years of declining enrollment, it closed its doors in 1987. Sacred Heart's facilities are now used by Belmont Abbey College.
The Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is a 450-acre (1.8 km2) world-class botanical garden positioned on New Hope Road southwest of Belmont.
The Downtown Belmont Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1996.
The ground of Belmont Abbey has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an Historic District since 1973.
The Belmont Historical Society Cultural and Heritage Learning Center is positioned in the former R.L.
Displays include furnishings, artifacts, and pictures which tell the history of Belmont from the time of its Native American inhabitants through the textile age.
National Whitewater Center is positioned just athwart the Catawba River from Belmont in Mecklenburg County.
Recently, the downtown region of Belmont has been expanding and adding new attractions like restaurants, bars, and comedy clubs.
The Stowe Mercantile Co., a downtown general store, and Bill's Belmont Drive-In, more generally known just as the "Drive-In", have been a primary part of the Belmont improve for a long time.
Greene Washington Caldwell (born near present-day Belmont on April 13, 1806, died 1864), congressional representative from North Carolina, propel as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 March 3, 1843) a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Belmont city, North Carolina".
Belmont Branch Library Textile Technology Center at Gaston College, Textile Technology Center at Gaston College Gaston Town Spotlight, Belmont NC: "The Beating Heart of two Rivers."
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