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.
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Save the Date for These Fall Events!
The Historic Landmarks Commission’s Adventure Club, in partnership with Historic Elmwood Pinewood, is taking our popular headstone cleaning event to Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery. This is the final resting place of many of Charlotte’s most notable citizens, including textile pioneer D.A. Tompkins, developer Edward Dilworth Latta, former Charlotte mayor S. S. McNinch, and W.W. Smith, Charlotte’s first major Black architect.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, October 5 (rain or shine) Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Meeting Location: Gardener’s Cottage at Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery Parking: Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery, 700 W. 6th Street, Charlotte Registration:Register Online by September 28 For More Information: Click Here
The Historic Landmarks Commission’s Adventure Club, in partnership with SpookyCLT, will be holding our first-ever haunted history tour at Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery. As we tour the grounds, we’ll hear stories of people who were laid to rest here, including Foy Cooper who was murdered in Elmwood Cemetery. Please note: Mature topics will be discussed. This tour is intended for an adult audience.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, October 19 (Rain date: October 20) Time: 5 p.m. Meeting Location: Gardener’s Cottage at Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery Parking: Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery, 700 W. 6th Street, Charlotte Registration:Register Online by October 17 For More Information: Click Here
The Historic Landmarks Commission, in partnership with Mecklenburg County and UNC Charlotte, is proud to host Donovan Rypkema, an expert on the positive economic impact of historic preservation.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, October 24 Time: 5 p.m. Meeting Location: The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City Parking:Click Here Registration:Register Online by October 17 For More Information: Click Here
Official Book Club of Mecklenburg County Historic Landmarks Department
Mecklenburg County’s Historic Landmarks Department already offers its Adventure Club so that you can visit our county’s historic properties. Now we’re launching a new initiative so that you can learn more about those properties: a brand-new book club specifically associated with the history of Mecklenburg County and North Carolina, as well as historic preservation efforts in general. We call it “Historic Bookmarks” (yes, very “punny”!).
Our Historic Bookmarks book club is holding its first-ever book club meeting at Camp North End and we want you to join us! We’ll be discussing Charlotte’s role during WWII with Charlotte’s own Meredith Ritchie, author of Poster Girls, a historical fiction novel set in Charlotte during WWII and based on true but forgotten events.
