Three vintage Charlotte Fire Department fire engines show the evolution of the city’s firefighting technology and efforts.

It’s time for another meeting of the Historic Bookmarks book club, our official book club! In connection with Black History Month in February, local author Greg Jarrell will discuss his recent book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods. This compelling story about today’s Charlotte cityscape tracks the entanglement of one local Black family and one white church over a century. We hope you can join us for this event at Second Ward High School Gymnasium, a designated historic landmark in what was once the historically Black neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Once Ford’s largest plant in the Southeast, the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant remained in operation for less than ten years. 

Designed by noted architect Louis Asbury, the Parks Hutchison School has served the educational needs of Charlotte’s children for more than 95 years. 

Mecklenburg County’s Historic Landmarks Department already offers its Adventure Club so that you can visit our county’s historic properties.

Rosedale was the home of generations of the Frew, Caldwell, and Davidson families for more than 150 years.

A longtime mill for asbestos textile products, the John B. Ross and Company Mill was reinvented in the 21st century as a music entertainment destination.

As the last pre-WWII filling station in uptown Charlotte, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Filling Station evidences the growing significance of the automobile during the 20th century.

The Sugaw Creek Schoolhouse is the oldest surviving instructional facility in Mecklenburg County.

The Dinkins House and Lodge was the family home of one of Mecklenburg County’s earliest and most affluent planters.