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What foods remind you of your growing up? That question will be a springboard for exploring Charlotte-area food traditions today with a spotlight on international offerings right here in Matthews.
Comparing North Carolina's accomplishments to those of prestigious neighbors Virginia and South Carolina, she said in 1900, "Where there are mountains of conceit, there are bound to be valleys of humility." Her famous quote, which she spoke as the first woman ever to address the Mecklenburg Histo
BY 1960, so many people had been attracted to the Piedmont section of North Carolina that the area within a 75 mile radius of Charlotte had a larger population than an equal area around Atlanta or other southern cities several times the size of Charlotte.
Richard Barry (ca. 1726-August 21, 1801) was born in 1726 in Pennsylvania. He immigrated to Mecklenburg through Maryland. Records indicate that he was a tanner and owned a business for many years. He is listed as one of Mecklenburg County's first magistrates.
William Allison Owens (ca 1834 - July 19, 1864), the first mayor of Charlotte, was elected in 1861; he was re-elected in 1863. In 1864, at the age of 28, Owens resigned his office to serve in the Civil War. He served in the Bethel Regiment and the 11 and 13th Regiments N.C.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died in a plane crash near Katha, Burma, after completing 75 missions over enemy held Northern Burma in 1944. After his 99th mission, he was assigned a desk job, but he insisted on flying. He died on his 101st mission.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: One of his planes engines caught fire, while bombing an enemy convoy. It was accompanying Axis merchant ships in the Mediterranean. The crew was able to extinguish the flames. Moments later the other engine caught fire.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He received notice that he had become a father and went from the island of Kauai to Oahu to tell his own father. His mother had been evacuated to Hollywood after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Seriously wounded near Dieuze, France on Nov 19. His friend wrote a letter to his parents for Thanksgiving, saying that he was safe and sound. Died of his wounds on December 4 at the 39th Evac. Hospital, Morhange, France.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Coming under attack after landing on the beach at Namur Island, he flung several grenades into a Japanese blockhouse before he was hit in the temple by sniper fire. Although badly wounded, he continued to lead his squad.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: One of four men who were killed when their medium bomber crashed at the field during a combat training flight. Memorial service at Sardis ARP Church on Jan 2, 1945, and at Dover Airfield on Jan 7, 1945. Burial in the church cemetery.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He entered the Canadian Air Corps at age 19. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he transferred to the U. S. Air Corps. He had been flying with the 27th Fighter Squadron in Italy.
Twenty-three years after his operation performed by Major William R. Pitts of Charlotte, Richard Tregaskis was still covering the wars. In a letter written in Honolulu on October 31, 1966, in reply to a request for permission to quote passages from Invasion Diary, Mr.
From Singleton, CA: Letter to certify that all arrived safely on the land selected by C.C. Petty for a Colored colony in California. 160 acres of fine timber and agricultural land.
By February, another plan was taking shape. Thomas S. Franklin, secretary for a Charlotte cotton press manufacturer and a member of the city board of aldermen, heard that industrialist Andrew Carnegie was offering cities and towns money for library construction.
Lack of space for both books and programs also was a serious problem. In 1915, Andrew Carnegie was approached again for funding. His $15,000 gift was used to build an annex at the rear of the original building.
The original church was formed from the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in 1886. It purchased the property from the estate of Pat Hall on 11-23-1895. The first building was constructed in 1900. It was replaced in 1922. The cemetery became inactive.