Nearby Crowders Mountain defines the setting of Bessemer City — its wooded Piedmont ridge country places this Gaston County community close to Crowders Mountain State Park. The city developed in the late 19th century as an industrial town, and its name recalls the Bessemer process, an influential method of steel production. Bessemer City sits between Charlotte’s expanding urban area and the foothill country of the Carolinas. The historic landscape around Kings Mountain is also nearby, associated with a pivotal 1780 battle of the American Revolution. Move on to other webcams in North Carolina to compare Piedmont towns, mountain ridges and urban settings around Bessemer City.
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