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Lewis H. Asbury (1877-1975) was one of Charlotte's first architects and, as the first North Carolina member of the American Institute of Architects, had a significant impact on the development of the organization in North Carolina. Lewis Asbury was a native Charlottean.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: His tank had been hit twice and was on fire. He ordered his comrades to evacuate, but he stayed behind to operate the guns to cover their escape. He was originally listed as missing in action but never returned to the hero's welcome he deserved.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He grew up in Charlotte and graduated from Central High School. Air Medal for meritorius achievement in sorties over Africa. Missing in action in the Mediterranean theater. Memorial marker in North Africa.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: In the 1920 census, the family lived in Charleston, West Virginia. While he was a junior high student in Charlotte, his father worked as a manager for Whitney & Kemmerer Inc. His family lived at 1007 Central Ave. in 1932. Lt.
This cemetery was near an early Mecklenburg County poor house. Some researchers believe the dead were victims of the Charlotte small pox epidemic in 1896. ON 4/16/1954, 28 African-Americans remains were moved by the Board of School Commissioners from this cemetery to Sec.
July 5, 1970 - Rev. Colemon Kerry, Jr., leads the dedication of the new Friendship Baptist Church on Beatties Ford Road.
October 15, 1974 - Charlotte becomes "The City that Made Integration Work."
Friendship Baptist Church, on S. Brevard St. in Second Ward, was demolished as part of urban renewal. In October 1963, the congregration left the original site and held worship services at Northwest Junior High School. They raised the funds for the new church through tithes and offerings.
Friendship Baptist Church, on S. Brevard St. in Second Ward, was demolished as part of urban renewal. In October 1963, the congregration left the original site and held worship services at Northwest Junior High School. They raised the funds for the new church through tithes and offerings.
The Reverend Sidney David Watkins, pastor of Little Rock AME Zion Church, 1900 - 1906 and Presiding Elder, Charlotte District, 1906 - 1922.
BESSIE MULLIENS.
This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School.
LAURA M. BOOTON
Presbyterian College was located on North College Street. The school changed its name to Queens College (now university) and moved to Selwyn Avenue in the Myers Park neighborhood. Converted to apartments, this building and others have since been demolished.
Once known as Biddle University, Johnson C. Smith University is Charlotte's only historic black colleges.
Margaret Neal and her brother Virlie at their home on First St., 1927.
VIRGINIA E. KEOGH.
Right: Margaret Neal at 18 years, upon her graduation from Second Ward High School, 1939.
Lillian Arhelger (1907-1931) was a native of Fredericksburg, Texas. She was a graduate of the University of Texas.
In 1902 there was published, by the authority of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and compiled by Clarkson & Duls, City Attorneys, The Code of the City of Charlotte, containing The Charter and all Acts amending it, and also the act providing for the establishments of Public Schools a
The North Carolina Year Book was a business directory published yearly by the News and Observer of Raleigh.