Elizabeth
Independence Park
The city's first public park (1905), Nolen-touched and quietly lovely below the Hawthorne bridge.
- Park
- Historical
Hours & practicals
- Hours
- No hours published. The number above is the only source.
- Address
- 300 Hawthorne Lane, Charlotte, NC
- From your base
- Sorts every list here by walk time.
The take
The oldest public park in the city, with an interior first laid out by John Nolen while he was still a graduate student. The Depression-era baseball grandstand was built with federal relief labor — the whole place is city history disguised as a lawn.
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Sources
- Facts — mecknc.gov, verified August 2026
- url — mecknc.gov, verified August 2026
- phone — google.com, verified August 2026
- theTake — mecknc.gov, verified August 2026
- deepCut — the guide’s own research notes — no published source, August 2026 — not independently verified
Sources disagree on facts.url: No official-site link is shown — the one on file has gone and no replacement is confirmed.
- https://www.mecknc.gov/parkandrec/parks/Pages/IndependencePark.aspx — mecknc.gov (Recorded as the official site; returned 404 when checked 2026-08-19.)
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The neighborhood
The 13 things this place connects to in the guide's map of the town — one step out, and nothing beyond it.
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See Independence Park on the wiki, with every connection listedArriving in Elizabeth? The first-hour guide