Peter

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1. 1804

   An enslaved boy named Peter, working the Reed mine's placer operation, unearthed a 28-pound gold nugget, described as the largest documented gold nugget found in the United States.

   Reed Gold Mine State Historic SiteReed Gold Mine

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2. 1838

   Historians, following the argument first advanced by Peter Force and later developed rigorously by William Henry Hoyt (1907), conclude that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was most likely a mistaken 19th-century conflation: elderly witnesses giving testimony decades after 1775, combined with a memory-reconstructed text prepared by John McKnitt Alexander after the alleged 1800 fire, blended the genuine, comparatively modest May 31, 1775 Mecklenburg Resolves with an imagined, more sweeping 'declaration of independence,' producing a spurious document that nonetheless became entrenched in North Carolina civic identity and state symbolism.

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   George AlexanderAbraham AlexanderSamuel C. AlexanderRobert HenryJohn McKnitt AlexanderWilliam Henry HoytPeter Force

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3. 1838 · 1838-01-01

   The authentic text of the Mecklenburg Resolves, though printed in 1775 newspapers, had been lost to public memory after the Revolution and was not rediscovered by historians (notably Peter Force, in newspaper archives) until 1838 -- more than a decade after the disputed 1819 Declaration text had already gained wide circulation and become entangled in North Carolina's civic memory.

   Charlotte ObserverMiners' & Farmers' JournalPeter Force

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4. 1882

   In 1882, Jane Renwick Smedberg Wilkes — who had earlier helped found St. Peter's (Charlotte's first general) Hospital — began a fundraising campaign, together with the parishioners of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, to establish a second Charlotte hospital dedicated to the city's Black residents.

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   Mecklenburg PresbyteryFirst United Presbyterian ChurchFirst Baptist Church WestPresbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy HospitalSt. Peter's Episcopal ChurchJane Renwick Smedberg WilkesJohn Wilkes

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5. 1888 · 1888-12-18

   The cornerstone of Good Samaritan Hospital, funded by St. Peter's Episcopal Church and its parishioners under Jane Wilkes's leadership, was laid in Charlotte on December 18, 1888, at a ceremony attended by both Black and white Charlotte residents.

   Good Samaritan Hospital siteMecklenburg PresbyteryFirst United Presbyterian ChurchFirst Baptist Church WestPresbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy HospitalSt. Peter's Episcopal ChurchJane Renwick Smedberg WilkesJohn Wilkes

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6. 1891

   The Charlotte Museum of History states Good Samaritan Hospital was built in Charlotte's Third Ward with funds raised by St. Peter's Episcopal Church and its parishioners, describing it as the first private hospital in North Carolina built exclusively for the treatment of Charlotte's Black citizens.

   Good Samaritan Hospital siteMecklenburg PresbyteryFirst United Presbyterian ChurchFirst Baptist Church WestPresbyterian HospitalGood Samaritan HospitalMercy HospitalMint Museum of ArtLevine Museum of the New SouthHarvey B. Gantt CenterNASCAR Hall of FameSt. Peter's Episcopal ChurchW.W. Ward

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