Jesse Spencer

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1. c. 1700

   The Great Trading Path (also called the Occaneechi Path) was a colonial-era trade route running roughly 800 miles, connecting Virginia's Fort Henry (Petersburg) south through the North Carolina Piedmont to Cherokee and Catawba territory; in North Carolina it crossed the Flat, Little, Eno, Haw, Uwharrie, and Yadkin rivers before turning south at the Trading Ford (near present-day Spencer) toward the Catawba and Waxhaw villages below Charlotte.

   Trading Path (NC highway marker L-36)Ford Motor CompanyCatawba NationOld Waxhaw Presbyterian ChurchRobert Henry

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2. 1903

   North Charlotte's mill village was founded in 1903 when textile magnates William Holt (of Alamance County) and Jesse Spencer and Charles W. Johnston (of Charlotte) joined to build the Highland Park Manufacturing Company and the surrounding mill village.

   Alpha MillMecklenburg Cotton MillAda MillOrient MillVictor Cotton MillHighland Park Manufacturing CompanyMarshall ParkCharles Worth JohnstonWilliam Holt

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3. 1907

   Following Hoyt's 1907 study, leading professional historians of the era -- including Stephen B. Weeks, John Spencer Bassett, and R. D. W. Connor -- publicly rejected the Mecklenburg Declaration's authenticity, and North Carolina historian Samuel A. Ashe sided with the skeptics in his 1908 state history, provoking fierce political resistance from the North Carolina legislature and heritage defenders.

   Samuel A. AsheWilliam Henry HoytStephen B. WeeksJohn Spencer BassettR. D. W. Connor

   Source · checked 2026-08-13