Includes Yorkshire, Palisades, Steele Creek, Griers Fork, Ayrsley, West Ayrsley, and Brown Road neighborhoods.

Includes Westmoreland, Harbor House, Westwood Forest, Moores Chapel, Arlington, Woodlea, Harwood Lane, Mountain Island, and Dixie-Berryhill neighborhoods.

The Craftsman styled Butler House evidences the history of a now-illegal racially discriminatory practice known as redlining.

Once a Ford manufacturing plant, the Camp Road property later served as an Army quartermaster depot and manufacturing facility for guided missiles and military vehicles. 

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.