[4] Gingerbread Row, (Cleveland Avenue - NC Highway 226) has an antique look with many restored homes in beautiful colors.

A railroad-dominated town started when the Atlanta Charlotte Airline Railway placed a turntable for engines to be spun.

Amtrak also operates on the line (under permission) and carries passengers from Atlanta to Charlotte, Richmond, Boston, and New York City.

Grover is also home to international companies like Eaton, Commercial Vehicle Group, Southern Power, 84 Lumber, Uniquetex, and the US Presidential Culinary Museum and Library.

Grover also hosts a former White House Chef and manager of the Presidential resort and conference center Camp David, Martin CJ Mongiello, who lives there.

Grover holds as many North Carolina Official Historical Markers as the county seat of Shelby.

It was the town of entry by The Marquess, Lord Charles Cornwallis when he invaded North Carolina with his cavalry, artillery, and army.

"I must go to dinner," he wrote to a friend, "but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring, a Swiss cheese, and a chop at Louis' instead of the French stuff I shall find."

A portion of the original plan encompassed renaming the town after the President's first name to attain notice.

In 1887, Cleaveland County held a referendum and vote to change its name to the more popular spelling of, "Cleveland".

A statue was dedicated to Colonel Frederick Hambright (Hambrecht Prussian family) and US Marine Corporal, Clyde Furman Horton on July 1, 2008.

[6] Many other prominent names dominate the makeup of Grover and are listed repeatedly in reference level books of the Cleveland County Library System, families like Herndon, Hambright (Hambrecht), Hamrick, Rountree, Keeter, Graham, Cleaveland, Cleveland, Scruggs, and Goforth.

[7] Its train and spinning engine turntable with history applied for such in a 2010 North Carolina Main Street program.

Numerous, public, middle and high schools are located nearby in Kings Mountain, NC.