Which Cherryville houses actually justify copper
Cherryville was incorporated in 1881, has a population of around 6,000 and is overwhelmingly owner-occupied older housing. Long ownership changes the gutter picture in a specific way: these houses have been maintained continuously by people who live in them, so what we find is rarely neglect and frequently the accumulated evidence of thirty years of well-meant repairs. Third-cycle gutter is the normal case, and the useful question is not how old the run is but how many times the fascia behind it has been fastened into.
Copper earns its place on some of that and not on the rest, and we would rather say which before quoting four to five times the aluminium rate. It belongs on genuine period property, where an aluminium K-style run across original eaves detailing is a visible compromise on a building that deserves better, and on architect-specified work where the metal is a deliberate part of the elevation. On modern subdivision housing it performs no better in any way that matters, because an under-drained copper gutter overflows exactly like an under-drained aluminium one. If the appeal is the look, painted aluminium half-round at $16 to $26 a foot gets most of the way there for roughly a third of the money.
Where copper is right, the specification decides everything. Copper is a noble metal and aluminium is not, so a copper gutter on aluminium hangers makes the hanger the actively corroding half of a galvanic cell, wet, every time it rains, for years. The gutter stays immaculate and the bracket wastes away, and in fifteen years the run comes off a house whose owner was expecting a lifetime. Copper or bronze hangers, copper or stainless fasteners, copper downspouts and straps, and soldered joints rather than sealant.
One check specific to the property rather than the town: copper runoff corrodes bare aluminium and galvanised steel below it, so anything downstream on the elevation (flashings, a porch roof, an existing downspout) gets looked at before we hang a foot of it.

What Cherryville itself changes
What drops on these roofs
Established and moderate. A town of this age has street trees that have been in place for generations, so the older residential streets carry real canopy directly over the roofs, though the town is small enough and the lots generous enough that it is not the wall-to-wall cover found in the older Charlotte wards. Gaston County generally runs to more pine than Mecklenburg, and pine needles are the debris most likely to defeat a screen-type guard.
Getting to the gutters
Easy. Mostly single-storey and modest two-storey houses on generous lots with plenty of room to work, level ground and adequate drives. Cherryville is one of the more affordable towns in the service area to have gutter work done, because very little of it attracts the access surcharge and almost none of it needs anything beyond a straightforward ladder position.