Kannapolis - North Carolina - Downtown Drive
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- A Sunday afternoon drive around the downtown area of Kannapolis, North Carolina. Also included are some adjacent residential areas to the downtown.
From Wikipedia:
Kannapolis (Kŭh-nă-pŭh-lŭs) is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The city of Kannapolis was incorporated in 1984. The population was 42,625 at the 2010 census, which makes Kannapolis the 20th largest city in North Carolina. It is the home of the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers, the Class A baseball affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, and it is the hometown of the Earnhardt racing family. The center of the city is home to the North Carolina Research Campus, a public-private venture that focuses on food, nutrition, and biotech research.
Early meaning and usage of the city's name was a direct reference to Cannon Mills Corporation, or James William Cannon himself. Early published name variations include "Cannon-opolis" and "Cannapolis". A widely accepted origin of the word "Kannapolis" comes from the combination of the Greek words kanna (reeds, not looms) and polis (city), which some believed meant "City of Looms". Dr. Gary Freeze, Catawba College history and politics department chairman, said a Concord newspaper used the name "Cannon City" in 1906. After mill workers or newspapers called the town "Cannapolis", J.W. Cannon asked Cabarrus County commissioners to give the town the name, but starting with a "K". Kannapolis historian Norris Dearmon said the K might have been to distinguish the town from his Concord mill village. Since, Freeze said, "Jim Cannon didn't study Greek," Cannon did not name the town "city of looms". In 1906 J.W. Cannon purchased the land that later became Kannapolis, and acquired a total of 1,008 acres in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties. Approximately 808 of those acres of farmland, purchased along the historic wagon road between Salisbury and Charlotte, became the location of the new textile mill, Cannon Manufacturing. Cannon Manufacturing began production in 1908. In 1914 Cannon Manufacturing became known as the world's largest producer of sheets and towels. Shortly after, Mr. Cannon opened plants in Rowan County, Concord and in South Carolina totaling 20,000 workers. Mill founder J.W. Cannon's youngest son, Charles A. Cannon, consolidated all the separate mills into the giant Cannon Mills Company in 1928.
Nice City ❤
Nice looking town
I used to live there. Beautiful town
Born and raised in Kannapolis but have been living in Florida the past five years. Just about the only thing i recognized is the Gem theater and Food Lion. Wow its changed so much.
omg same here, there used to be that huge factory they blew up a while ago. So sad to see it all gone, I remember being young and my dad and I snuck into one of the buildings before they blew it up.
Kannapolis is a town that actually nobody talks about or shows on CZcams videos is a pretty town ngl
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HOLD UP Y'ALL PAST MY HOUSE WTF, lol 😂 I just saw my house lol
i grew up in this town but you would never reconized most places since everything has changed and people moved away since the mill died out only real place that is left is the Gem theater and some place are still there like Brothers Tire Store they still kept the look at i remember it to be
I live here but I have to move to Concord
Rip Estella Westmoreland
How would a commute from Kannapolis to Uptown Charlotte be?
Probably around 30 minutes
Slow Down Mileage, You Are Driving 🚗.. Your Car To Fast Down The Road 🛣 At The Very End Of Your Video.. Nice Video 📹.
Y'all y'all was by my cousin house Annette aquarium by the dentist that's my dentist we used to always got what we still go to that Food Lion and Dollar General over there
It's not the Kannapoils I grew up in, that town has long been destroyed!!
Looks like they were rebuilding the entire downtown area.
Those round abouts gotta be annoying.