At the 1875 celebration, James `Jimmy` Belk claimed to have been visiting Charlotte as a child and to have been an eyewitness to the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration at the Mecklenburg County courthouse on May 20, 1775. If so, he was the oldest surviving witness to the event.
Pictured is the "heads" side of the coin. The reverse side is in the image gallery below.
The New York Herald had a special edition to celebrate the Meck Dec centennial in 1875.
Independence Square, now known as The Square, was drawn on stone by Geo. Welch, Architect and Artist, from sketches accurately taken by him on the spot, as reported in The Daily Charlotte Observer on 5/6/1875, p. 4. This lithograph was a fine souvenir for the Meck Dec centennial in 1875.
North Carolina. Declaration of Independence May 1775. The state of North Carolina presented this native block of white marble to the Washington Monument in the District of Columbia at noon on February 22, 1853.