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| | History of Shelby--Shelby, North Carolina: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary |
 | | The town of Shelby, named for Isaac Shelby, the Revolutionary War hero of the battle of nearby Kings Mountain, was officially incorporated by an Act of the Legislature in 1843 as a circular town extending one-quarter mile in each direction from the public square. |
 | | Civic pride grew in Shelby, and by 1897 the Masonic lodge, the YMCA, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the United Camp of Confederate Veterans were flourishing organizations within Shelby. |
 | | Shelby, today, is still a courthouse town; its economy is based on diversified industry and cash grain farming as well as on general merchandising. |
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