Elizabeth College

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1. 1770

   In 1770 the North Carolina Colonial Assembly passed legislation for 'the founding, establishing, and endowing of Queen's College, in the Town of Charlotte,' funded in part by a tax on spirituous liquors in Mecklenburg County; Governor William Tryon, grateful to Presbyterians who had aided him during the Regulator conflict, ratified the charter on January 15, 1771.

   Queen's CollegeWilliam Tryon

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2. 1771

   Queen's College opened operating out of a building erected by Thomas Polk at the southeast corner of South Tryon and Third Streets in Charlotte, with advertisements for the college appearing in newspapers beginning July 1771; the college operated through 1771-1772 without final royal approval of its charter, with Edmund Fanning (Yale 1757, Harvard 1764) nominally selected as president, though he likely never served due to his role suppressing the Regulator Movement.

   Queen's CollegeThomas PolkWilliam TryonEdmund Fanning

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3. 1772

   King George III disallowed the charter of Queen's College in 1772, reportedly doubting the wisdom of formally chartering a Scots-Irish Presbyterian institution in the backcountry for fear it would perpetuate anti-royalist, dissenting sentiment; news of the royal rejection reached North Carolina in June 1773, effectively ending the initial chartering effort.

   Queen's CollegeKing George

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4. 1773

   Despite lacking a royal charter, Queen's College's trustees continued to operate the school informally under the name 'Queen's Museum,' and in January 1773 inhabitants of Rowan and Mecklenburg counties petitioned to establish a 'public Seminary of Learning in the Western part of this Province,' though this second attempt produced little formal result.

   Harding High SchoolSecond Ward High SchoolCentral High SchoolQueen's CollegeMint Museum of ArtLevine Museum of the New SouthHarvey B. Gantt CenterNASCAR Hall of Fame

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5. 1776

   After independence was declared, the school in Charlotte formerly known as Queen's College/Queen's Museum became known as Liberty Hall Academy; its trustees supported the revolutionary cause, and notable students there reportedly included future North Carolina governor William R. Davie and future U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

   Harding High SchoolSecond Ward High SchoolCentral High SchoolQueen's CollegeMint Museum of ArtLevine Museum of the New SouthHarvey B. Gantt CenterNASCAR Hall of FameAndrew JacksonWilliam R. Davie

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6. 1784

   Liberty Hall Academy relocated from Charlotte to Salisbury in 1784, effectively ending the operation of Charlotte's colonial-era institution of higher learning; the modern Queens University of Charlotte, founded separately in 1857 as the Charlotte Female Institute, later adopted the name 'Queens College' in 1912 to commemorate the original 1771 institution, though it is not a direct institutional continuation.

   Queen's College

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7. 1862

   The Charlotte Confederate States Navy Yard occupied a site at the southwest corner of East Trade and College Streets, near the North Carolina Railroad tracks, and operated from 1862 until the Confederate government's final collapse in 1865 — a distinction noted on its historical marker as the only Confederate navy yard ever built more than 100 miles from navigable water.

   Confederate Navy Yard / Mecklenburg Iron Works (site)Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government CenterConfederate Navy YardCharlotte and South Carolina RailroadNorth Carolina Railroad

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8. 1897

   Construction began in early 1897 on Elizabeth College, a Lutheran women's college built on land donated by the Highland Park Company and renamed for benefactor Elizabeth Watts of Baltimore, giving both the Elizabeth neighborhood and Elizabeth Avenue their name.

   Marshall ParkElizabeth Watts

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9. 1903

   Construction of houses in the Highland Park section of Elizabeth accelerated rapidly after the 1903 extension of the East Trade Street streetcar line along Elizabeth Avenue to Elizabeth College and out present-day Hawthorne Lane.

   Charlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric RailwayMarshall Park

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10. 1915

    Elizabeth College closed its Charlotte campus in May 1915 and relocated to Salem, Virginia, where it merged with Roanoke College, leaving its campus available for later use by Presbyterian Hospital.

    Presbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy Hospital

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11. 1918

    Presbyterian Hospital relocated in 1918 from West Trade Street to the former Elizabeth College campus in the Elizabeth neighborhood, two years after Mercy Hospital had moved to a site in the adjoining Rosemont subdivision in 1916.

    Presbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy Hospital

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12. 1936 · 1936-09-26

    The first college football game was played at the newly completed American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill versus Wake Forest.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

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13. 1948 · 1948-01-01

    In 1948, at age 29, Billy Graham became president of Northwestern Bible College (Northwestern Schools) in Minneapolis, making him the youngest college or university president in the country at the time; he held the post until resigning in 1952.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

    Joseph Graham

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14. 2012

    Central Piedmont Community College championed the urban sections of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway restoration, which was operated by Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation and overseen to completion by the NC Department of Transportation.

    Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church

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