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Submitted by: Vicille “Dee Dee” Wallace Murphy (Daughter of Fannie Hargrave Wallace) and Robert Nathaniel Wallace, III (Son of Fannie Hargrave Wallace)
In 1929 the Charlotte Public Library became involved with the Julius Rosenwald Fund in a library demonstration project. The project was designed to provide incentive for increased local support. The library would receive $80,000 from the fund spread over five years.
The celebrations of 1835 were described in letters by two eye-witnesses and later compiled in The Papers of William Alexander Graham, J. G. DeRoulhac Hamilton, editor, NC State Dept. of Archives and History 1957.
Acknowledgments
This project would not have been possible without the assistance of the following individuals and organizations who generously loaned photographs or otherwise contributed to the project:
Mrs. Kelly Alexander, Sr.
Mildred P. Alridge
The United House Of Prayer For All People on South McDowell St. The church was torn down in 1970 as part of urban renewal. The site is now part of Marshall Park.
Copies of the photographs on this page and documents were donated by Steve Estis, son of Samuel Estis, in November 2020. The full collection also includes 17 photographs of flight logs from Sgt Estis' time at Morris Field.
Mecklenburg Time 5/19/1897 p.1
CHARLOTTE EN FETE
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
Second Ward lies within the city of Charlotte, NC, south of Trade Street and east of Tryon Street. Boundary Street and Little Sugar Creek formed its other boundaries.
The Excelsior Club, a long-time center of black social and political activity, was started in 1944 by Jimmie McKee in a seven-room house on Beatties Ford Rd.
In 1923, the city opened two new high schools, Central High School on Elizabeth Ave. for white students and Second Ward High School on Alexander St. for black students.
William Graham (1740 - 7/17/1818) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. His ancestors were Scotch-Irish and first settled in Pennsylvania before coming to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Known as the Fighting Quaker, Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786) was a famous American Revolutionary War General who fought successful campaigns against the British in North and South Carolina. Greene was the son of Quaker parents who lived in Rhode Island.
James Harris (circa 1739 - circa 1778) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. His father, Samuel Harris, came from Scotland, and died at sea before reaching New York. His sons buried him in Manhattan.
John Queary (first half of the 18th century -?) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. This surname may have many variations in early colonial records. He was born in Scotland and came to America as a young man.
David Reese (1710 - 1787) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. Reese's ancestry varies a little from other signers because he was born in Wales. He inherited many books from his father's library and was well educated for his time.
Zebulon Vance (1830-1895) was a lawyer, state legislator (1854), congressman (1858), U.S. senator (1870, 1878, 1885, 1891) and N.C. governor (1862,1864, 1876). He began his law studies in Tennessee, but came to the University of North Carolina in 1851.