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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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