History

Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church

church-body

Also known as Sugar Creek

Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church — church, appearing in the Charlotte record across 9 documented year(s).

In the record (11)

  1. 1760

    Mecklenburg County's Presbyterian congregations of the colonial era are collectively remembered as the 'Seven Sisters': Sugar Creek (est. c.1756), Hopewell (1762), Poplar Tent (1764), Centre (1765), Providence (1767), Steele Creek (organized before 1760), and Philadelphia (1770) -- reflecting the dense Scots-Irish Presbyterian settlement pattern that shaped local governance and later revolutionary sentiment in the county.

    Philadelphia Presbyterian ChurchSteele Creek Presbyterian ChurchHopewell Presbyterian ChurchProvidence Presbyterian ChurchPoplar Tent Presbyterian ChurchCentre Presbyterian Church

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  2. 1765

    Thomas Polk rose to local prominence during the 1765 "Sugar Creek War," organizing settler resistance against colonial land surveyors over land grants and tax disputes in the backcountry.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

    Thomas Polk

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  3. 1893

    A $100,000 power-generating plant Highland Park built on Sugar Creek made Highland Park Mills No. 1 and No. 3 North Carolina's first electrically driven textile mills, a technological milestone in the state's cotton-mill industry.

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

    Alpha MillMecklenburg Cotton MillAda MillOrient MillVictor Cotton MillMarshall Park

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  4. 1968

    Charlotte City Council member Jerry Tuttle first proposed an urban waterfront concept for Little Sugar Creek, inspired by San Antonio's River Walk, in 1968 — an early precursor to today's Little Sugar Creek Greenway.

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  5. 1999

    A 1999 Mecklenburg County bond plan approved funding for property acquisition and construction of greenways including Little Sugar Creek, building on a 1980 master plan that had identified 20 area creeks and streams for a countywide greenway system.

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  6. 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.

    Elizabeth College

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  7. 2012 · 2012-04-24

    On April 24, 2012, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced completion of the urban section of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway through Charlotte, an urban stream restoration/daylighting project that cost about $43 million, making it the most expensive stream restoration undertaken in Mecklenburg County.

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  8. 2018

    The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was further extended in 2018 with a 1.5-mile section from Tyvola Road to Huntingtowne Farms Park.

    Marshall Park

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  9. 2018 · 2018-03-16

    The 2018 Blue Line Extension added two LYNX light rail stations serving NoDa — Sugar Creek and 36th Street — connecting the arts district's long-running bimonthly gallery crawl (held first and third Fridays) to the regional light rail network for the first time.

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  10. 2020

    The Little Sugar Creek Greenway was expanded in 2020 with a 2.2-mile segment from Huntingtowne Farms Park to I-485.

    Marshall Park

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  11. 2021

    An additional 1.8-mile segment of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway, south of I-485, opened in 2021.

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