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The dated layer of this guide: what changed in Charlotte, when, and how we know — each item linked to the places, events and eras it concerns. A restaurant opened. A place we list closed. The tram is gone and pedicabs replaced it.
This is not a newsroom and it is not trying to be one. We have no reporter and no scanner, we run no crime blotter and no obituaries, and we are days-late and correct rather than minutes-late and wrong. For actual local news, read the Charlotte Today-Dispatch and WBOC.
We publish when something changes, and at least twice a month. There is no daily edition and there is no wire — nothing here is breaking news, and nothing here is published before it is checked.
From the Archive
The Blue Line at 18: how one rail line rebuilt South End
Charlotte's first light-rail line opened in 2007, $237 million over its first estimate. Since then, South End has absorbed an estimated $2.2 billion in redevelopment around it.
From the Archive
Charlotte is named for a German princess who never visited
Mecklenburg County and Charlotte Town were both named for a German princess who became Britain's queen consort in 1761 and, by the record, never saw the town that carries her name.
From the Archive
Before California, there was a 12-year-old at Little Meadow Creek
In 1799, Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget on his family's Cabarrus County farm — the first documented gold find in the United States, about fifty years before California's rush began.
From the Archive
What stood where the government center stands now
Brooklyn was a 238-acre Black neighborhood of homes, churches, and businesses in Charlotte's Second Ward. Between 1960 and 1968 the city demolished nearly all of it under federal urban renewal.
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