Croft Historic District

Croft is a small cluster of buildings beside the old Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad tracks north of Charlotte, preserved as the core of a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century rural railroad settlement. The centerpiece is the 1908 two-story brick general store built by brothers Silas Winslow and Charles Spencer Davis, with its original shop front, interior and painted signage largely intact. Nearby are cotton and fertilizer warehouses, the brothers' 1903 Queen Anne house with a wraparound porch and lathe-turned detail, a small brick flower house, and the former two-story Croft School, built around 1890 and enlarged around 1912. The tracks that brought goods and carried cotton to market form the western edge. Although surrounded by subdivisions, warehouses and industry, mature trees preserve a rural character. The district was listed as the best surviving example of this type of settlement in Mecklenburg County, for its role in community development and for the quality of its store, house and school.