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SINCE its birth two hundred years ago the crossroads village that was once known as Charlottetown or Charlotteburg has grown into the largest city in the Carolinas and one of the most important industrial and distribution centers in the nation.
I CANNOT REMEMBER WHEN I did not know our devoted friend, Miss Lowe. Long before I was born, she lived in her little house next door to my mother’s and lived beside us until her death.
The Bugler
When the morning's gray and the fog is thick
The bugler turns his nasty trick.
First call, he blows on his piece of junk,
As you tumble drowsily out of your bunk.
You call him names and wish he were
THE COLORED RACE as a whole was markedly religious during the dark days of slavery, and out of many a fervent gathering held in the recesses of dark swamps or other forbidden places came the simple, sincere thoughts expressed in many grand old spirituals.
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.
AMERICA was plunged into World War II with the assault of the Japanese upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and once again Charlotte was selected as the site of war facilities.
THE CHARLOTTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE considered the greatest problem concerning Camp Greene to be convincing the government to locate it in Charlotte. Unfortunately, a greater problem was the failure of mother nature to cooperate with the government and Charlotte.
THROUGHOUT THE MONTHS Camp Greene was located in Charlotte, the men were overwhelmed with displays of hospitality.
AND NOW the rolling gentle hills of northeastern Mecklenburg, the warm red clay of his native county. Home again, and good to be home.
THE battle of Charlotte is given scant attention in general histories of the Revolution, but the battle marked the turning point in the fortunes of the British. Never thereafter did the enemy wage a very successful offensive.