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Brokers Real Estate, LLC
2076 Arsley Town Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28273
Main: 704-499-9190
Mobile: 704-906-0553
IreneSigrist@Yahoo.com
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Before You
Sign on That Dotted Line...Call Me !
Charlotte, North Carolina...
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A Great Place to Call Home !
The city
of charlotte (approx population: 650,000) occupies most of the land area of
mecklenburg county (280 sq miles). other towns in mecklenburg county are:
cornelius, davidson, huntersville, matthews, mint hill and pineville. other
nearby counties include: cabarrus, stanly, union, york (sc), gaston, lincoln and
iredell.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Official Website Best Place to Start
Mecklenburg
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Charlotte Observer
Charlotte's Newspaper
Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce More Good News About the "Queen City"
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
County Schools Everything You Could Ask About CHAR-MECK Public Schools
Union County Public Schools
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CHARLOTTE AREA
CHARLOTTE AREA HISTORY
QUEEN
CHARLOTTE
Sophie Charlotte
was one of six children born to the royal German family of Duke Charles Lewis
Frederick and Dutchess Elizabeth Albertina. Princess Charlotte spent her
childhood at Mirow, a castle located in a section of Northern Germany known as
Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1761, she married King George III and became Queen of
England at the age of 17. Queen Charlotte was a respected botanist and
established exotic tropical gardens at Kew Palace, her residence in England. She
also introduced the Christmas tree, a tradition borrowed from her German
homeland, into England culture.
Throughout
the turbulent Revolutionary War period, the Queen bore 15 children, two of whom
became kings of England. In 1763, the English settlers of this area named their
newly formed community “Charlotte” and their county seat “Mecklenburg”, in honor
of the Queen and her homeland. Queen Charlotte’s crown remains today as the
symbol of the City of Charlotte, which is also known as “the Queen City”.
INDEPENDENCE !
Local tradition
holds that on May 19, 1775, the leaders of the Charlotte community and
Mecklenburg County gathered at the log courthouse in Charlotte to discuss the
increasing restrictions being placed upon their liberties by the English Crown
and Parliament. Word of the battle at Lexington, Massachusetts had just reached
town. On the morning of May 20, the chosen delegates boldly dissolved political
ties to the British empire. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was
created and signed by 27 citizens and on May 31, the delegates signed the
Mecklenburg Resolve, a plan for a new government free of English control.
Captain James Jack, a local militia member, rode on horseback tp Philadelphia
and delivered copies of the documents to the North Carolina representative of
the Continental Congress. Over a year later, on July 4, 1776, the Continental
Congress repeated the actions of the citizens of Mecklenburg County and declared
all of America independent from England. The Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence foreshadowed the desire for self-determination that Americans
eventually fought for and attained during the Revolutionary War.
HORNET’S NEST
In the spring of
1780, Lord Cornwallis and the British army landed at Charleston, South Carolina
and began a northward march to break the stalemate in the Revolutionary War. On
September 26, 1780, Cornwallis and his army entered the town of Charlotte
despite valiant resistance from the local militia led by William R. Davie and
Joseph Graham. The British army occupied Charlotte, but local militia continued
to harass the British troops at every opportunity. While headquartered in
Charlotte, Cornwallis sent a patrol to the McIntyre farm on Beatties Ford Road
to search for supplies. At the farmhouse, a handful of Mecklenburg militia once
again fired upon the British. During the confusion, the scrambling British
soldiers overturned several beehives in the yard and the skirmish became known
as the Battle of the Bees. On October 12, the British retreated to South
Carolina and a distressed Cornwallis wrote to his superiors that Charlotte was a
“veritable nest of hornets”. Local patriots were proud of their defense of
Charlotte against overwhelming odds. Two centuries later, a hornet’s nest is
remembered and used by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County as part of the official
seal for local government.
