 This hedge was intended to be cut back semi-annually to five feet, but with the invention of barbed wire in the 1880s their chore was neglected and remnants of these hedges are still to be seen on area farms.In the late 1860s the railroad interests were again alive and by Nov. 1870 the first train pulled into Charlotte.The Midland utilized the grading of the railroad that went bankrupt in 1857.