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Object Title: Idlewild Road Park
Location: 10500 Idlewild Rd., Matthews, (N.C.)
Date Taken: 11/10/2000
Photographer: Jane Johnson
Hours of hand sewing go into the making of most clothing especially dresses. Each button or bit of lace or pleat is painstakingly sewn on by either a seamstress or the lady of the house.
Built in 1900, Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is still located at 209-211 South Brevard Street. The building is no longer open to the public, but i
Once known as Biddle University, Johnson C. Smith University is Charlotte's only historic black colleges.
A photographic exhibit of the Highland Park Mill community from the collections of Mrs. Lois Moore Yandle. Click on the image titles below to see them at full size or view them as a slide show in the Image Gallery below.
Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church, c. 1945.
Left to right, front row: James Bratton, Homer Bonner, Porter Connor, Edgar Phillips, the Reverend J. H. Moore.
Myers Street School was the oldest black school in Charlotte. It began in an old tobacco barn on 5th Street in 1882. The students and faculty moved into a new wood-frame building in 1887, located on land that had belonged to the Myers family. A new brick building followed in 1931.
These photographs from the Carolina Room's Charlotte Observer negatives offer a cheery glimpse of the community's second annual St. Patrick's Day parade held on Saturday, March 16, 1957.
'Twas a Great Day for The Irish of All Nationalities
January 7 — Queen King Duke Crown: Mecklenburg History 101. Join community historian Dr. Tom Hanchett for a fun and informative journey through our area's history, from Colonial-era Queen Charlotte up to today’s newest immigrants. Bring your questions about this place we call home!
Object Title: Hal Marshall Building
Description: The County office building occupies the site of an old Sears store.
Location: Charlotte (N.C.)
Building regional libraries required a patron in the community, a person or institution whose support made possible a bigger, more fully equipped building than the county could
THROUGHOUT THE MONTHS Camp Greene was located in Charlotte, the men were overwhelmed with displays of hospitality.
INVENTION of the cotton gin had an almost immediately discernible effect upon the economic life of the South, including Mecklenburg, and, despite the fact that Charlotte, significantly and fortunately, would continue to develop as an industrial center, for the first several decades of the new cen
John McKnitt Alexander (1733 - 7/10/1817) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence.He is probably one of the most famous signers. Born in Maryland, his came to Mecklenburg County with some siblings.
John Foard (? - circa 1795) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. His ancestry is probably Scottish, and his name was spelled that way, rather than the English version of Ford.