Voice in the Wilderness, by LeGette Blythe, portrays the influence of Presbyterianism in the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
U.S. President “Ike” Eisenhower spoke to thousands when he visited Freedom Park in Charlotte for Meck Dec festivities in 1954.
Souvenir programs were printed for President Eisenhower's visit.
In 1947 Dr. Alexander Graham wrote about the "events forming background of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence."
Charlotte hosted a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly on February 22, 1939, to commemorate the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
George Snell, a legislative information clerk, talked with children who visited this memorial to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Raleigh in 1939.
The Charlotte Carnegie Library was built in 1903 at 310 N. Tryon Street and is shown here decorated for Mecklenburg Declaration Day. Tryon Street was often one of the main streets in the parade routes. The exact date of this photograph is unknown.
Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated Meck Dec on May 19, 1929. This picture of their picnic at the Hezekiah Alexander home shows the house before it was restored in the 1960s.
The program cover for the celebration of the 150th anniversary in 1925 of the Mecklenburg Declaration.