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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.
Transcript of Charles Malvern Paty, Jr.'s, Speech
Note:This speech was given at a public program sponsored by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County at the Great Aunt Stella Center in Charlotte, NC on March 23, 2000.
The following articles depict preparations of the 1898 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence celebrations.
Charlotte Daily Observer: 5/17/1898 p. 5; 5/18/1898 p.6; 5/19/1898 p.5
5/17/1898 p. 5
The following articles detail the unveiling of a monument dedicated to Lieutenant Shipp for the 1900 May 20th celebrations in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Charlotte Daily Observer 5/18/1902 p.5 and The People’s Paper 5/21/1902 p.2
Charlotte Daily Observer 5/20/1906 Sec.3 p. 3 and 5/20/1906 Sec.3, p. 5
ODE TO NORTH CAROLINA
PATTIE WILLIAMS GEE.
To stay the rocks from heralding the shame
That in oblivion of men’s praise or blame
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 following text is taken from an article in the Charlotte Observer: “Rock of ages: Charlotte`s black churches weather adversity, retain strength,” by Kathleen McLain. (Charlotte Observer, February 8, 1987, p.1A)
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.