Robert Henry

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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 ChurchJesse Spencer

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2. 1760

   Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, the second-oldest congregation in Mecklenburg County, was organized around 1760 by Scots-Irish settlers; its first permanent pastor, Robert Henry, arrived in 1766, and Rev. James McRee led the congregation from 1778 to 1797. The Mecklenburg Presbytery itself was organized at Steele Creek in 1780.

   Steele Creek Presbyterian ChurchMecklenburg PresbyteryFirst United Presbyterian ChurchFirst Baptist Church WestSteele Creek Presbyterian ChurchJames McRee

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3. 1819 · 1819-07-09

   In a letter to John Adams dated July 9, 1819, Thomas Jefferson expressed skepticism about the newly-surfaced Mecklenburg Declaration, writing that he believed it 'spurious,' noting that unlike Patrick Henry's 1765 Stamp Act resolutions which 'flew like lightning thro' every paper' of the day, this supposedly sweeping 1775 declaration of independence had 'never once [been] quoted' in any contemporaneous source before its 1819 appearance.

   Thomas JeffersonJohn Adams

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4. 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.

   Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

   George AlexanderAbraham AlexanderSamuel C. AlexanderPeterJohn McKnitt AlexanderWilliam Henry HoytPeter Force

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5. 1867

   Mary Deborah Baird Biddle of Philadelphia, widow of Union Major Henry J. Biddle (who was mortally wounded at the Battle of New Market in June 1862), pledged $1,400 toward the new Charlotte freedmen's school, which was named the Henry J. Biddle Memorial Institute in her late husband's honor.

   Johnson C. Smith UniversityHarding High SchoolSecond Ward High SchoolCentral High SchoolBiddle Memorial InstitutePhiladelphia Presbyterian ChurchMary Deborah Baird BiddleHenry J. Biddle

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6. 1867 · 1867-05-01

   The Henry J. Biddle Memorial Institute, chartered by the state as a freedmen's school under the Presbyterian Church's Board of Missions for Freedmen, held its first classes on May 1, 1867, enrolling eight male students in a local church building in Charlotte.

   Johnson C. Smith UniversityHarding High SchoolSecond Ward High SchoolCentral High SchoolMecklenburg PresbyteryFirst United Presbyterian ChurchFirst Baptist Church WestBiddle Memorial InstituteMary Deborah Baird BiddleHenry J. Biddle

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7. 1907 · 1907-01-01

   In 1907, historian William Henry Hoyt published 'The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence: A Study of Evidence Showing That the Alleged Declaration of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on May 20th, 1775, Is Spurious,' a rigorous scholarly study that marked a watershed in professional historians' rejection of the document's authenticity and argued the 1775 declaration story arose from conflation with the genuine Mecklenburg Resolves.

   William Henry Hoyt

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8. 1927

   The First National Bank Building at 112 South Tryon Street, designed by prominent Charlotte architect Louis H. Asbury with engineering by Lockwood, Greene and Company, was constructed in 1926-1927 for First National Bank under president Henry M. McAden and was proclaimed the tallest building in the Carolinas upon its 1927 completion.

   First National BankWilliam TryonLouis H. AsburyHenry M. McAden

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9. 1929

   A Levine Museum of the New South digital exhibit on Camp North End instead states the Ford plant opened in 1925, ended Model T production in 1927 in favor of the Model A, and closed in 1929 following the stock market crash — a chronology that conflicts with both Camp North End's own site and The Henry Ford museum's dates.

   Camp North EndFord Motor CompanyMint Museum of ArtLevine Museum of the New SouthHarvey B. Gantt CenterNASCAR Hall of Fame

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10. 1933 · 1933-03-01

    The Henry Ford museum's official research guide states Ford's Charlotte assembly operation, which opened in September 1924, ceased production in March 1933, as the company shut down most domestic branch plants during the Depression.

    Ford Motor CompanyMint Museum of ArtLevine Museum of the New SouthHarvey B. Gantt CenterNASCAR Hall of Fame

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