117 South Center Street,
Statesville, NC 28677
(704) 397-6959
www.statesvillehistory.com
Come on in. It's FREE!
Take a trip down historic Broad Street or Center Street. Take a gander at the thousands of photographs that line the walls of the collection. Or maybe even take a peek at the memorabilia. Get a peek at Newspapers dating from the 1860s! Maybe take a look at books, pamphlets, fliers, and circulars about local citizens, businesses, and places! Interested in more? Take a look below for more things Statesville Historical Collection:
📸 Photographs of Statesville/Iredell County streets, roads, buildings, businesses, athletic teams, special events, gatherings, and more;
💵 Advertising items used by and issued by local businesses;
🏛 Statesville and Iredell County Government Documents dating from the 1780s;
🍾 Bottles and packages with printed and embossed names of local businesses;
✉️ Picture postcards from the early 1900s through the 1960s;
🥃 Tobacco and liquor items from products manufactured in Statesville, such as: advertising, correspondence, boxes, bags, tags, labels, and more;
⚾️ Professional baseball items from Statesville Owls, Tigers, Colts, Indians, etc., and Mooresville Moors;
🍿 Memorabilia and movies filmed in Iredell County;
✨ Collectibles related to famous, and infamous, Iredell citizens;
🎙 Recordings made by local artists;
☎️ Obsolete products made by Statesville Businesses;
📕 Tom Dooley memorabilia, including books, recordings, and memorabilia from the movie The Legend of Tom Dooley.
👉 To embrace the important responsibility of collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting historical and cultural stories, documents, images, and artifacts of significance of Statesville and Iredell County, NC.
👉 To embrace the value of accurate research in understanding the history of diverse cultures while practicing the highest professional standards in collecting.
👉 To identify and promote the significant contributions this community and its people have made to national and state culture and history.
👉 To provide for experiences that capture the unique mid-20th Century small town atmosphere which has enabled the community to thrive and maintain a rich quality of life for citizens.
👉 To support and compliment state and local organizations with similar interests in local history interpretation and preservation.
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Hello,
I'm Steve Hill. I'm a lifelong resident of Iredell County, North Carolina. Since 1969, I've been collection historical memorabilia related to my hometown, Statesville, North Carolina. As you can imagine, a lot of stuff can be accumulated in 50 years. These pieces of our past have come from a wide variety of places, but mostly from auctions, flea markets, yard sales, antique shops and shows, and of course, the internet. Incidentally, they have come from every state in the country and from overseas as well.
Many items in the collection were acquired from local residents who wanted to find a home for their prized family relics–a place where the items can be appreciated and preserved for posterity. In each of these cases, I have promised the donor that I will never sell or make a profit from their trust. This is a promise I take very seriously, and one that, I’m proud to say, has never been, nor ever will be, broken. Until 2010, the bulk of the collection was in storage. However, in October of 2010, local-businessmen Bill Stiles and Costi Kutteh offered temporary storage space at the FireFly Balloon factory at 810 Salisbury Road.
After the successful 2011 exhibition, the factory was sold. In Spring of 2012, the collection was relocated to a new temporary home at 212 South Center Street, in Downtown Statesville. Exhibit space was made possible by the staff and Board of Directors of the Downtown Statesville Development Corporation. Next, through the generosity of the Louis Gordon family, the collection would find a new home in the Summer of 2014. The new gallery would open at 212 North Center Street. A heartfelt thank you to the entire Gordon family for their kindness, friendship and continued support for, not only the Statesville Historical Collection, but for our entire community.
In 2024, the location at 212 North Center Street would be sold, and the collection would be moving to the Historic Holland Building in Mid 2024.
I look forward to sharing the collection with you soon!
Thank you,
Steve Hill
117 South Center Street,
Statesville, NC 28677
(704) 397-6959
www.statesvillehistory.com
Come on in. It's FREE!
