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Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had been overseas only a month and two days when he went into his final action. He had previously been reported as missing in action.
Born in Ohio, Sue Myrick (1941-) is a former advertising executive who first held political office on Charlotte's City Council from 1983-85. In 1987, Myrick, a Republican, was elected the city's first female mayor and served two terms until 1991.
LOCAL HISTORY has attracted greater interest as people recognize that everyday events are the building blocks of the national experience. This monograph describes a microcosmic part of the 1914-1918 war effort of the American people.
The North Carolina Year Book was a business directory published yearly by the News and Observer of Raleigh.
William Thomas (W. T.) Harris, of the Harris Teeter grocery store chain, was a prominent businessman, self-made millionaire, Baptist devotee, politician, and community advocate
Radioman 2nd Class Charles Malvern Paty, Jr.
Note: This speech was given at a public program sponsored by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County at the Great Aunt Stella Center in Charlotte, NC on March 23, 2000.
INFORMAL in approach, this history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and written under direction of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
Welcome Soldier! was published by the Charlotte Junior Chamber of Commerce to help newly stationed troops become familiar with the city.
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An article relaying the news that President McKinley cancels his visit to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence celebration.
The Charlotte News 5/18/1900 p.1
This digital exhibit represents the opinions and emotions surrounding the March For Our Lives event of the people of Charlotte, March 24 2018.
From about 1925 until 1942 "Old Wayside," the nom de plume assumed by Harold C. Brown, was well known throughout the Carolinas. Among shut-ins he was even more widely known and loved.
THE writing of history more than any other literary enterprise puts writers in debt to other people. Historians, if left to their own devices, would never find much of the important data that gives color and life to their work.
The Carolina Room Staff of the Charlotte and Mecklenburg Library has created this exhibit to tell the story of the city and county during World War I.
MECKLENBURG staged one of its most notable independence day celebrations with the 1916 visit of President Woodrow Wilson. After a parade from the Southern Railway station on West Trade Street, Mr.
The U. S. Rubber Company, locally called the “Shell Plant,” was located 10 miles south of Charlotte on York Road in the Steele Creek area of Mecklenburg County.
Although he only lived in Charlotte until age 5, artist Romare Bearden (1914-1988) is still identified with the city of his birth.
George III (1738-1820, reigned 1760-1820) was ruler of Britain during the years in which American colonists fought for their independence in the Revolutionary War.
Charles Manuel Grace (?-1960) arrived in the United States in the 1920. Often referred to as Sweet Daddy Grace, he preached and traveled throughout the eastern U.S. His ministry began with tent revivals that drew hundreds of followers.