Looking to escape Charlotte and enjoy the outdoors and autumn weather without driving three hours to the west? Morrow Mountain State Park and the Uwharrie National Forest are located just an hour or so east of the Queen City.
Looking across Lake Tillery to the Uwharrie National Forest
photo of lunar eclipse taken from the Discovery Place parking deck, credit: Justin Ruckman
I’ve been looking around for some good ghost stories this week and this one is from the book Ghost Stories of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County by Stephanie Burt Williams. I’m not saying these are facts, but this book is really fun and [...]
“Coins minted in Charlotte when the Queen City was among the country’s main suppliers of gold have been found amid the wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1846 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Last year, four Louisiana residents salvaged hundreds of gold coins and thousands of silver ones from the wreckage of the SS New [...]
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