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Meck Dec: Celebration Timeline
Meck Dec: Celebration Timeline
Presidential visits, parades, patriotic speeches, dances and reenactments of Captain Jack's famous horse...
Four Articles from the Catawba Journal:
May 10, 1825, p. 3:
20th May, 1775. – We mention sometime since, that the anniversary of the...
Miners' and Farmers' Journal, October 26, 1833, p.3
Another Revolutionary Patriot gone. Died, in this county, on the 19th inst. at his...
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FOURTH OF JULY
The birth-day of our country’s liberty was celebrated in this place by the Lafayette Artillery in handsome...
The celebrations of 1835 were described in letters by two eye-witnesses and later compiled in The Papers of William Alexander Graham, J. G...
The following article appeared in the Charlotte Journal, December 2, 1836, p.3
A Revolutionary Hero gone! Died, at his residence in...
The 1839 celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indendence was described in a diary entry
Susan Davis Nye Hutchison Charlotte school...
On May 18, 1841, the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian urged readers to donate towards the construction of a monument to the signers of the...
On May 24, 1842, the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian published this poem on p.2:
POETRY. FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN.
“20TH MAY, 1775.” “Ubi...
On May 16, 1843, the Mecklenburg Jeffersonian published this poem, apparently a revision of the 1842 poem on the Mecklenburg Declaration of...
The Western Democrat of May 26, 1857, reported on the festivities surrounding the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of...
The Daily Bulletin 5/17/1859 p.3
(some material edited for clarity)
CELEBRATION
20th May, 1859. – The HORNETS NEST RIFLEMEN having made...
May 20th, 1861, was chosen as the date for the state of North Carolina to secede from the Union. North Carolinians met at a convention on...
Daily Carolina Times 5/16/1867 p. 3 Firemen’s Ball.
We make our acknowledgment to the Committee for a Complimentary Card to attend the Ball...
Three articles from the year 1873 testify to the muted celebrations of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence during the...
Two newspaper articles below describe the observance of the Mecklenburg Decarlation of Independence in 1874.
The Southern Home , 5/25/...
Two newspaper articles discussed the centennial of the Mecklenburg Declaration.
"Centennial Scraps," Southern Home, 5/31/1875 and "Mother...
The national magazine, Harper's Weekly, sent a reporter and an artist to Charlotte, NC, to document the centennial celebration of the...
Two newspaper articles discuss the planning and execution of the 101st celebration of Mecklenburg Declaration.
Southern Home: 4/24/1876 p....
The following are two articles from the Charlotte Home Democrat detailing the 109th anniversary celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration...
The following are two articles announcing the 111th May 20th celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and another...
The following are articles from the Charlotte News describing the preparations leading up to the 115th anniversary of the Mecklenburg...
The following are articles from the Charlotte News detailing the 115th Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence celebrations in 1890.
The...
The following are two articles describing the preparations for a monument dedicated to the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
The...
The following are two articles from the Charlotte News relating the history and significance of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence...