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Long before television, most Americans relied on traveling theatrical companies to come through their city and perform for two weeks or more.
The new main library, with more than twice the space of the old facility, was planned to accommodate expanded services and changing technology.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: His pregnant wife was waiting in their apartment for him to fly his last three hours of training before going on leave to Pennsylvania. Once his leave was over, he would be shipping out to Okinawa.
Plum Thickets and Field Daisies is Rose Leary Love's memoir of her life in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte.
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"Rock of Ages:" Charlotte's Black Churches Weather Adversity and Retain Strength
by Kathleen McLain
One of the most important agencies for maintaining cohesion and rendering social welfare was the church. In slavery, the church played a vital role in attending to the spiritual and social needs of slaves as well as aided in the successful escape of slaves to freedom.
The Charlotte News 5/20/1916, Sec. 2, pages 1, 12
PARADE IMMENSE – MILITIA, FLOATS, IN LONG LINE
Packed Streets Greeted Marchers as They Moved from Morehead to Square, Thence to Reviewing Stand.
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As the county’s population grew, the facility on Poor House Road became more and more inadequate. The local newspapers reported that its facilities were “inadequate and incomplete . . .
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
IT TOOK NATURE AND MAN 150 years to build Charlotte into a city of 50,000 people. The government built a city of equivalent size in west Charlotte in less than 90 days. The campsite was 2,340 acres of farm country with a total population of perhaps 75 and cotton growing waist high.
MUCH OF THE Material in this book is information that was told to me by older people. Much of it is what I have remembered from my childhood experiences.
The Carolina Room map collection includes a wide variety of items:
THREE weeks after Charleston fell and the British started toward the Waxhaw settlements, General Griffith Rutherford assembled nine hundred militiamen in Charlotte. The situation in the South, he told them, was desperate.
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