Fact Friday

Fact Friday 358 - The Significance of Biddleville Cemetery - Part 1

Fact Friday 358 - The Significance of Biddlevil...

Happy Friday! This week's Fact Friday comes to you from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission. ---  As one of the original majority-black ring villages surrounding Charlotte following the emancipation of...

Fact Friday 358 - The Significance of Biddlevil...

Happy Friday! This week's Fact Friday comes to you from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission. ---  As one of the original majority-black ring villages surrounding Charlotte following the emancipation of...

Fact Friday 357 - Images of Black History in Charlotte

Fact Friday 357 - Images of Black History in Ch...

Happy Friday! This week's Fact Friday comes to you from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, and features various images from Charlotte's rich black history. ---   After the Civil War,...

Fact Friday 357 - Images of Black History in Ch...

Happy Friday! This week's Fact Friday comes to you from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, and features various images from Charlotte's rich black history. ---   After the Civil War,...

Fact Friday 356 - Gray Toole, Barber and Community Leader

Fact Friday 356 - Gray Toole, Barber and Commun...

Happy Friday!   This week's Fact Friday comes to you from our good friend, Jeffrey Begeal, Chairperson for Social Studies and AP/IB History Teacher at my alma mater, Harding University...

Fact Friday 356 - Gray Toole, Barber and Commun...

Happy Friday!   This week's Fact Friday comes to you from our good friend, Jeffrey Begeal, Chairperson for Social Studies and AP/IB History Teacher at my alma mater, Harding University...

Fact Friday 355 - The Independence Building, The First Skyscraper in NC

Fact Friday 355 - The Independence Building, Th...

Happy Friday! This week's content comes from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission.  --- The series of developments which led to the construction of the Independence Building (Realty Building) at Trade...

Fact Friday 355 - The Independence Building, Th...

Happy Friday! This week's content comes from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission.  --- The series of developments which led to the construction of the Independence Building (Realty Building) at Trade...

Fact Friday 354 - Remembering the Kemper Open at Quail Hollow Club

Fact Friday 354 - Remembering the Kemper Open a...

Happy Friday! More than a quarter-century before the creation of what’s now the Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club was part of the nomadic history of the Kemper Open. Still...

Fact Friday 354 - Remembering the Kemper Open a...

Happy Friday! More than a quarter-century before the creation of what’s now the Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club was part of the nomadic history of the Kemper Open. Still...

Fact Friday 353 - Did you know Charlotte's enslaved were whipped on the Square?

Fact Friday 353 - Did you know Charlotte's ensl...

Happy Friday! According to D. A. Tompkins' History of Mecklenburg County, slavery was introduced to Charlotte Mecklenburg in 1764. By 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, the slave...

Fact Friday 353 - Did you know Charlotte's ensl...

Happy Friday! According to D. A. Tompkins' History of Mecklenburg County, slavery was introduced to Charlotte Mecklenburg in 1764. By 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, the slave...