The outlying neighborhoods were suburban places with homes and scattered shopping. Nearly two hundred of these existed. Some of them were:
Beatties Ford-Trinity
Belmont
Biddleville
Chantilly
Dilworth
Druid Hills North
Eastland
Eastover
Elizabeth
Envision
Grier Heights
Grier’s Fork
J T Williams
Meyers Park
Marshbrooke
Midwood
NoDa
North Charlotte
North Sharon Amity
Paw Creek
Plaza-Midwood
Piper Glen Estates
Providence Plantation
Quail Hollow
Sherwood Forest
South End
South Park
Sherwood Forest
Star Mount
Stonehaven
Tryon Hills
Villa Heights
Wilmore
Winterfield
Yorkmont
Meyers Park, Dilworth, and Eastover had some of the oldest and largest homes in the city.
There were people living in all these areas. Most of them were law abiding. Some were law makers. Some, a few were law breakers. They caused all the trouble for their innocent victims. They gave the law officers work to do.
There was a collection of buildings for the inhabitants to work in. Houses of all values and sorts were there for the people to live in. There were enough people present there to act in all the ways to keep that city alive. Some of these people were good honest ones. They lived, worked, and had wholesome and good lives. None caused any harm to another. There were some other people living there that were not the best of people. These were crooks. They committed crimes that harmed society. They cared nothing about the rights of others and law an order. Some had been caught by the police, tried, and sent to jail or prison for lawbreaking. They in time got out and returned to a life of crime. Some had done crimes and never yet had been caught and punished. What they did was evil, for greedy reasons, or was just destruction for fun. Their harmful illegal behavior was a way of life for them. They had no conscience or remorse for their bad lives. No regrets. Criminals usually want money, cash money. They harmed innocent people to get it. They used brute strength, gangs, and dangerous weapons to overpower a situation to obtain money. Pistols, rifles, shotguns, grenades, knives, clubs, and explosives were the most common weapons that they used. Most of the time they hid