Fact Friday

Fact Friday 83 – The 'Mint' In Charlotte's Oldest Art Museum

Fact Friday 83 – The 'Mint' In Charlotte's Olde...

Happy Friday everyone!   The Kokenes family lived on Graham Street behind the old Charlotte Mint, at the current site of the Charles R. Jonas Federal Court Building at 401...

Fact Friday 83 – The 'Mint' In Charlotte's Olde...

Happy Friday everyone!   The Kokenes family lived on Graham Street behind the old Charlotte Mint, at the current site of the Charles R. Jonas Federal Court Building at 401...

Fact Friday 82 – The Carolina's First TV & Radio Station

Fact Friday 82 – The Carolina's First TV & Radi...

Happy Friday everyone!   The first fully licensed radio station in the Southeast, WBT began operation as an experimental station known as 4XD in December 1920, in Mr. Fred Laxton’s...

Fact Friday 82 – The Carolina's First TV & Radi...

Happy Friday everyone!   The first fully licensed radio station in the Southeast, WBT began operation as an experimental station known as 4XD in December 1920, in Mr. Fred Laxton’s...

Fact Friday 81  – Second Ward High School

Fact Friday 81 – Second Ward High School

Happy Friday everyone! Only a sign commemorates the spot where so many African-Americans were once educated. Second Ward High School opened as the first exclusively black public high school in...

Fact Friday 81 – Second Ward High School

Happy Friday everyone! Only a sign commemorates the spot where so many African-Americans were once educated. Second Ward High School opened as the first exclusively black public high school in...

Fact Friday 80 – New Year, New Look

Fact Friday 80 – New Year, New Look

Happy Friday everyone! The new year is upon us! Many use this time to reflect on the past and to focus on their hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations for the future....

Fact Friday 80 – New Year, New Look

Happy Friday everyone! The new year is upon us! Many use this time to reflect on the past and to focus on their hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations for the future....

Fact Friday 79 – Lighting the Crown

Fact Friday 79 – Lighting the Crown

Photo from Charlotte Center City Partners Happy Friday everyone! A lot of people who come to Charlotte's New Year's Eve Celebration look forward to the fireworks, and the lighting of...

Fact Friday 79 – Lighting the Crown

Photo from Charlotte Center City Partners Happy Friday everyone! A lot of people who come to Charlotte's New Year's Eve Celebration look forward to the fireworks, and the lighting of...

Fact Friday 78 – Queen Charlotte and the First Christmas Tree

Fact Friday 78 – Queen Charlotte and the First ...

A Christmas tree for German soldiers in a temporary hospital in 1871.   Happy Friday everyone! Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, is usually credited with having introduced the Christmas tree...

Fact Friday 78 – Queen Charlotte and the First ...

A Christmas tree for German soldiers in a temporary hospital in 1871.   Happy Friday everyone! Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, is usually credited with having introduced the Christmas tree...