Queen City Drug Store

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1. 1768

   The town of Charlotte was formally incorporated in 1768 following advocacy by Thomas Polk, one of Charlotte's founders and a state legislator (and great-uncle of future U.S. President James K. Polk); the county courthouse stood at the center of the Trade-and-Tryon street grid, drawing farmers who combined legal business at court with trading, cementing Charlotte's role as the county's main trading town.

   Mecklenburg County CourthouseThomas PolkWilliam Tryon

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2. 1865

   The Confederate government conducted its business out of the Bank of North Carolina's Charlotte branch office from April 19 to April 22, 1865, before its remaining cabinet meetings shifted to the William Phifer House on North Tryon Street, where they continued through April 26.

   Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government CenterBank of North CarolinaWilliam Tryon

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3. 1891 · 1891-09-23

   Good Samaritan Hospital opened for business on September 23, 1891, at the corner of Mint and Graham Streets in Charlotte's Third Ward, with a 20-bed capacity — one of the first hospitals built specifically for African American patients in the United States and the first privately funded Black hospital in North Carolina.

   Good Samaritan Hospital sitePresbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy HospitalW.W. WardJoseph Graham

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4. 1905

   The 4Cs held an effective monopoly on Charlotte's streetcar and power business until 1905, when James B. Duke established the rival Southern Power Company; Latta ultimately sold his streetcar/power business to Southern Power in 1910.

   Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

   Charlotte Street RailwayCharlotte Electric RailwaySouthern Power CompanyEdward Dilworth LattaJames B. Duke

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5. 1960

   Wikipedia's article on Brooklyn (Charlotte) lists Queen City Drug Store, the A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, a YMCA, and a public library among the neighborhood's institutions prior to demolition; this fact is included as a cross-check pointer only and has not been independently corroborated by a tier 1-2 source.

   Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

   Observer Printing House

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6. 2008

   Ken Thompson received approximately $8.7 million in severance compensation following his June 2008 ouster as Wachovia CEO, despite having been named BusinessWeek's Business Person of the Year in 2003 during Wachovia's growth into the nation's fourth-largest bank.

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7. 2020 · 2020-07-23

   On July 23, 2020, the Jacksonville portion of the RNC was abandoned due to a COVID-19 case surge in Florida, leaving Charlotte with only the reduced official-business portion of the convention.

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8. 2020 · 2020-08-24

   After Charlotte's single-day reduced RNC business session on August 24, 2020, the convention's prime-time programming shifted entirely to the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. for the remaining nights through August 27, 2020.

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9. 2020 · 2020-08-24

   The scaled-down official-business portion of the 2020 RNC was held in Charlotte on the morning of August 24, 2020, with only about 300 to 336 delegates attending in person — roughly one-sixth of the convention's full 2,550-delegate roster — to formally renominate Trump and Pence via roll call and voice vote.

   Source · checked 2026-08-13