Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland

The Catobas are the first known indigenous tribes of North America to settle in Mecklenburg County, and were mentioned in the Spanish records of 1567. In 1759, half of the Katobas died of smallpox from Europe because they were immune to the new disease. The highest number of Katobas reached 10,000, but by 1826 only 110 survived.

The first Charlotte-based European immigrant was a Scottish-Irish Presbyterian from Northern Ireland, whose culture dominated southern Piedmont. They are the basis of European migration to the region. German immigrants also settled before the US War of Independence, but they were far smaller. They also played a big role in Charlotte's founding.

At first, Mecklenburg County today belonged to Bart County (1696-1729), and in 1729 Bart County was renamed New Hanover County. In 1734, the west part of New Hanover County was Braden County. In 1750, the West of Braden was divided into Anson County. In 1762, Mecklenburg County was separated from Anson County. Cabellus County was separated from Mecklenburg County after the 1792 American Independence War.

In 1842, Union County left the south-east of Mecklenburg County and the west of Anson County. All of these areas used to belong to one of the six regions/military districts of North Carolina, the Salisbury District.

About 1755 European immigrants settled in today's Charlotte. The first man named Thomas Slater lived with his family in today's Elizabeth Quarter. US President James Knox Polk's great-uncle, Thomas Polk, later married Mr. Spector's daughter, whose house was built at two Aboriginal shopping malls between the Yadkin and Catoba rivers. One of the two streets goes north and south, and the other goes east and west, which is today's trade street.

Charlotte's nickname is "Queen's City," and like the county where it lives, it's named after Charlotte, German princess Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1761 Mecklenburg-Strelitz's Charlotte became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Seven years later, in 1768 it became a city. Another nickname for Charlotte came from the United States during the War of Independence, when Charles Cornwallis, the first British commander, was expelled from the city after occupying Charlotte. He wrote, "Charlotte is a rebel Howl." That's what Charlotte calls The Hive.

From Polk's settlement, the region developed the town of Charlotte in just a decade. In 1768 it became a city. The intersection of the two malls has become Charlotte City. In 1770, the surveyors pre-formatted the streets for future urban planning. The East-West Trade Street became today's trade street, and the North-South Trade Street became today's Terion Street, named after the colonial governor of North Carolina, William Turion. The intersection of the two streets is today called "Trade and Treon" or "Plaza", officially known as "Independence Square".

In 1772, when William Moltri surveyed the border with Carolina, he passed by Charlotte and wrote that five or six houses in the area were "built with wood very professionally."

In 1775, local leaders gathered to sign the Mecklenburg Resolution, also known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Freedom. This declaration, though not really a declaration of independence from British rule, was one of the first in a similar declaration that led to the American revolution. On May 20 each year, a Sunday signed by traditional resolutions, Charlotte commemorates Independence Square, including shooting and shelling. The date is also on the flag and emblem of North Carolina.

Post-independence

Charlotte was traditionally seen as the home of the South Minister's Patriarch, but in the 19th century many churches were built in the city, along with Baptist, Methodist, American Anglican, Sindhi and Catholic churches, giving Charlotte the word "City of Church".

In 1799, a 12-year-old Conrad Reid found a 17-pound stone that his family used as a doorstop. Three years later, a jeweler paid a paltry $3.50 to buy the stone after discovering it was almost entirely gold. The discovery of gold first recorded in the US led to the first gold rush in the country. Gold veins were found in the 19th and 20th centuries, leading to the creation of the Charlotte Mint in 1837. Although later the gold rush produced much more than Charlotte, North Carolina was the main gold producer in the United States until the Nevada gold discovery in 1848.

There's still a gold rush in the river today. The Reed Gold Mine ran until 1912. The Charlotte Mint stopped work in 1861, when the Allied forces occupied Charlotte. After the war, the Mint did not return to work, and today it moved to another building, called the Mint Museum.

Charlotte, the first rapid postwar development, became a cotton processing center and a railway hub. In 1880, the number of people in the city rose to 7,084.

In 1910, Charlotte was the largest city in North Carolina, with a population exceeding that of Wilmington.

From World War I to today

The US government set up a Green Camp north of Charlotte's Wilkinson Avenue today, which raised Charlotte's population once again. Many soldiers and army suppliers remained in Charlotte after the war, driving urbanization there and eventually leading to Charlotte overtaking many of the old cities on the Piedmont Ridge. At the time of the 1920 census, Charlotte was only the second largest city in North Carolina, with 48,395 inhabitants, 2,000 more than Charlotte. Charlotte overtook Wilmington a few years later.

Charlotte's rapid banking development in the 1970s and 1980s made it a banking metropolis today. At the time, the National Bank of North Carolina, under the leadership of investor Hugh McCall, acquired BofA through aggressive merger strategies. First United, renamed United Bank of America in 2001, experienced a similar rapid expansion and was acquired in 2008 by Wells Fargo, a San Francisco-based group. Charlotte became the second largest bank in the US after New York, based on controlled assets.

September 22, 1989 Hurricane Hugo passed by Charlotte. The sustained wind speed during the hurricane reached 110 kilometers per hour and the gust wind speed reached 140 kilometers, causing heavy damage. 80,000 trees have been destroyed and power has been cut in most areas of the city. Some residents had no electricity for weeks, and schools were closed for more than a week, and the cleanup continued for months. Charlotte, 320 kilometers from the coast, is unprepared for such a hurricane, which usually brings coastal residents of North and South Carolina to Charlotte for refuge.

In December 2002, more than 1.3m people were cut off from electricity as a result of an ice storm in Charlotte and central North Carolina. Many people have no electricity for weeks in this unusually cold December. Many pear trees in the city are crushed by ice.

Protests continued for several days in Charlotte after police shot two black men in August 2015 and August 2016.

Charlotte has a total area of 799 square kilometers, including 794 square kilometers of land, 5.2 square kilometers of water and 229 meters of height. Most of Mecklenburg County in the Piedmont Hills of Carolina is downtown Charlotte. Charlotte's city center is on a long plateau between the two streams. This high ground is piled up by the waste of past gold mines.

Although the Catoba and its lakes are miles from Charlotte, the city center lacks large waters or other geographic features. So unlike other big cities, Charlotte's development has nothing to do with waterways and ports. So Charlotte has become a hub for highways, railways and air transport.

Cityscape

South Park Neighborhood in Charlotte

Fourth Satellite Night View

199 neighborhoods in Charlotte City, spreading in all directions. Bidwell, which was the center of the Charlotte African american community at first, on the west side of the Upper City, has been running from Johnson Smith to the airport. North of Central Street and east of Plaza is the Midwood Square neighborhood, known for its international residents, from eastern Europe, Greece, the United States' central east and Latin America. There are some Asian communities in the North Trion and Shagklik regions. The Noda neighborhood north of the upper city is an emerging art and entertainment hub. Miles Park, Dillworth and Eastover have some of Charlotte's oldest and largest houses and Boulevard, and Liberty Park is nearby.

South Park Neighborhood offers shopping, dining and multi-family apartments. There's a big Hispanic community on South Far. Many of the students, scientists and associated staff at the University of Charlotte in North Carolina live in University City, northeast of Charlotte.

South Charlotte's vast area includes golf communities, mansions, churches, Jewish community centers and private schools. As the undeveloped area in Mecklenburg County is less and less, many of these communities extend to Wellington, Waxhoe and Union County. The Barantyne neighborhood south of Charlotte and almost all areas along Interstate 485 have grown rapidly over the past decade.

In particular, there were a number of major construction projects in Charlotte City since the 1980s, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Hearst International Group, Duke Energy's buildings, hotels and apartment buildings.

green

The Bridge on E4 Street on Little Sugar Creek Green Road

Park Road Park, near the South Park area, is 120 acres, a prominent landmark. The park has eight basketball courts, two skateboard horseshoes, six baseball fields, five picnic fields, volleyball fields, game fields, trails, tennis courts and an 11-acre lake. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Park and Leisure Service manages 36 tennis facilities and 12 illuminated tennis facilities in the park.

In 2012, the inner section of the Little Sugar Creek Green Road was completed. The Green Way is influenced by the San Antonio River Walk and is integrated with many of Charlotte's city park systems. Greenway designer Gwen Cook of Mecklenburg County Park and Leisure Service calls it "a huge milestone." But there's no direct connection between the Little Sugar Creek Green and the San Antonio River Walk. The Little Sugar Creek green road is easily submerged during thunderstorms or heavy rain. The construction of the Green Road cost $43m and led to some controversy, as some local small stores were forcibly expropriated.

From the 1990s, Charlotte and Mecklenburg Counties bought flooded houses. Charlotte has built 200 acres of open-ended city space through a voluntary purchase of 700 homes that can be flooded in the face of flooding, saving an estimated $28m in losses from floods and emergency rescue costs.

climate and environment

Charlotte is a typical sub-tropical humid climate with clear seasons, relatively moderate temperature changes and even distribution of precipitation throughout the year, representing the climate of the Southeast American interior. warm in winter, slightly warm, sometimes warmer, the average daily maximum temperature below 0 °C (32 °F) is 1.5 days, the average daily minimum temperature below 0 °C (32 °F) is 59 days, the average daily minimum temperature below -5 °C (23 °F) is 16 days; The summer is relatively hot and humid, with a daily maximum temperature of over 30 °C (86 °F) for 83 days each day, and over 35 °C (95 °F) for 12 days. The coldest month (January) was 4.5 °C (40.1 °F) and the lowest extreme temperature was -21 °C (-5 °F), three times (last appeared on January 21, 1985). The hottest month (July) was 25.8 °C (78.5 °F) and the highest extreme temperature was 40 °C (104 °F), six times (last seen from June 29 to July 1, 2012). The highest temperature of the coldest record in winter is -10°C from February 12 to 13, 1899, and the lowest temperature of the coldest record is 28°C from August 13, 1881. The frost-free period averaged 219 days (31 March to 4 November). Annual average precipitation of approximately 1,060 mm (41.6 inches), annual extreme minimum precipitation of 666 mm (26.23 inches) (2001) and maximum precipitation of 1,749 mm (68.84 inches) (1884). April was the driest month, with an average precipitation of 7.7 cm.

The subtropical moist currents flowing northwest from the Gulf of Mexico bid directly for Charlotte after arriving on the East Coast, so it has plenty of rain but lots of sunny skies. In general, spring precipitation is greater than autumn. Charlotte has an average annual precipitation of 1,060mm, a little wet in summer, but overall annual precipitation is fairly balanced. The lowest recorded annual precipitation in 2001 was only 666mm, up to 1884, reaching 1,738mm. The average annual snowfall is 11 cm (4.3 inches), mainly in January and February, and rarely in December or March, often with mixed storm. These ice storms have a very strong impact on the area, and they often take this part of the trunk, causing the branch to fall over the wire or hurting the driver. But the amount of accumulated snow in many winters is so small that it is hard to measure, with the largest amount of snow in 1959-60, 57 centimeters (22.6 inches), and the least and almost none in 2011-12. There was occasional snowfall in April, last on April 2, 2019.

Recent US population estimates (published in May 2018) show 872,498 people living in Charlotte. There are 1,093,901 inhabitants in Mecklenburg County. The population of the entire metropolitan area is 2728933. According to the 2010 census data, the population density of Charlotte is 948.7 people per square kilometer. There are 319,918 households in this Municipality.

Charlotte's 2010 US census was conducted with a population of 25 people at each point: White, black, Asian, Spanish, or

According to the 2010 US census, 45.1% of the population in Charlotte were white, 35.0% black, 13.1% Hispanic or Latino, 5.0% Asian, 0.5% Native American, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Aborigines, and 6.8% other. 2.7% are hybrids.

In 1970, the Census Bureau reported that Charlotte was 30.2% black and 68.9% white.

The average annual income per household in the city is $48,670 and the average annual income of households is $59,452. The average annual income for men was $38,767 and for women was $29,218. Per capita annual income is $29,825. 10.6% of the population and 7.8% of the households living below the poverty line, including 13.8% of minors and 9.7% of the elderly.

religion

Gepeili Library

Charlotte was historically a Protestant city. Mr. Goperi was born in Charlotte, and the bishop of the southern parish of the Presbyterian Church is in Charlotte. But as the city's population grows, new arrivals also bring many new faiths and sects. Several Christian communities are based in Charlotte. Charlotte has more than 700 religious sites.

Today, the Presbyterian Church in the United States is the fourth largest religious body in Charlotte, with 68,000 believers and 206 groups. The second largest Presbyterian Church is the US Presbyterian Church, with 43 churches and 12,000 believers, and the third largest is the Reformed Presbyterian Church, with 63 churches and 9,500 believers.

North American Baptist Peace Scholarship is based in Charlotte. There are also two seminaries in the city. In recent years, the departments of theology at local colleges and universities have also developed considerably.

The United Methodist and other churches are based in Charlotte.

The church with the most Charlotte followers has 1.5 followers.

The St. Patrick's Cathedral in Charlotte is the Cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. The Setuor Brothers of St. Paul X, Church of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in the vicinity, did a Toleten mass. The Church of St. Anne of Charlotte is also a Toleteng mass. Charlotte's largest Catholic parish has more than 30,000 adherents.

The Greek Orthodox Church's cathedral in North Carolina is in Charlotte.

The St. Peter's Cathedral in Upper City is the oldest Catholic church in the city

Two of Carolina's largest Jewish communities are in Charlotte. Salon Park in the south of the city is a hub for Jewish communities, with two synagogues and a community center, a primary school and the headquarters of a Jewish newspaper.

Most African americans in Charlotte are members of the Baptist National Convention, the most dominant church among African americans. African americans who follow Taoism are not members of the Charlotte-based Orthodox Church of Islam or members of the African Methodist Church.

In 2013, 51.91% of the population of Charlotte regularly participated in religious activities and was the second most religious city in North Carolina, following Winston-Sahara. The largest religion in Charlotte is Christianity, with the highest number of believers in Baptists (13.26%). The second highest Christian community was the Catholic Church (9.43%), followed by the Methodist (8.02%) and the Presbyterian Church (5.25%). Other Christian sects include the Pentecostal Movement (2.50%), the Sinuizong (1.30%), the American Anglican Society (1.20%), and the Latter Saints Movement (0.84%). Other Christian churches (8.87%) include both orthodox and non-sectarian churches. Judaism (0.57%) is the second largest religion after Christianity, followed by East Asian religions (0.34%) and Islam (0.32%).

Bank of America

Duke Energy Tower and Charlotte Westin

BB&T's headquarters in Charlotte

Charlotte has become a major US financial center with bank assets second only to New York City. BofA, the second largest US financial company by assets, is based in Charlotte. BB&T, the sixth largest US financial institution, is also based in Charlotte. BB&T was created by the merger of BB&T and Sun Trust in 2019. It was also based in Charlotte until Wells Fargo bought it in 2008. By late 2011, Wells Fargo had completely merged UnionBank, with all the former UnionBank divisions in Carolina incorporated into Wells Fargo in October 2011. Wells is based in San Francisco, but Charlotte is its east coast headquarters. Charlotte is also the headquarters of several investment market sectors at Wells Fargo, including sales and trade, security research and investment banking. Bank of America and other regional banks and financial services companies are headquartered primarily in the central business district of Upper City. Microsoft's east coast is based in Charlotte.

In 2019, the 7 Fortune US 500 companies established their presence in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The seven companies by their rank are: Bank of America, Honeywell, Newark Steel, Lloyds, Duke Energy, Sony Motors and Mingya Finance. The Charlotte region has a very diverse economy, with local companies including Harristic, Snyder and Carolina Foods, Lions Foods, The United States Kimberly Group and Coca cola Canning Corporation (the second largest Coca cola bottling company), The Hyatt Corporation in the packaging industry, The Financial Services Industry Dixon Hughes Goodman Limited Partnership, The Chemical Industry Jabour, The Doors and Windows Manufacturing Jerwin, The Engine and Transportation Continental Group, Marco Global Automotive Services, Calais Group, Retail Belk, Cato and many other companies in different industries.

Charlotte is an important US power sports industry center, and the only Formula One team in the US, Haas, is based in Charlotte. The National Motor Racing Association's teams and offices, the Association's Hall of Fame and the Charlotte Motor Racing Stadium built in Concord are also here. About 75% of the National Motor Racing Association's teams, staff and racing athletes are based around Charlotte. With a large number of local car racing technology industrial companies, and the newly built racing circuit, more top professional straight-line racing athletes have moved their teams and companies to Charlotte.

Versfargo Center

The National White Water Center is located in the western part of Mecklenburg County, and consists of several man-made currents of different heights, which are open to the public in adulthood.

Charlotte is an important base for energy companies and has been dubbed the "new energy capital". There are more than 240 local enterprises directly related to the energy industry, with a total of 26,400 employees. More than 7,000 new jobs have been added to the local energy industry since 2007. Leading local energy companies include Areva, Duke Energy, Electric Power Science Research Institute, Fluor Corporation, Medo, Piedmont Gas, Abbott, Siemens Energy. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has a strong reputation for energy education and research, and its Center for Energy Production and Infrastructure trains energy engineers and conducts research.

Charlotte and its surrounding areas are becoming hubs for East Coast trucks and cargo transport. Downtown Charlotte has grown rapidly over the past decade. The city still has several residential buildings under construction, including 20 skyscrapers that are under construction, newly completed or planned. There are also many new restaurants, bars and clubs. Several conversion projects are also under way in Midtown and Elizabethtown.

2013 Forbes magazine includes Charlotte in its list of the best places in business and life. Charlotte is ranked the 20th largest city in the US, with 60th fastest-growing cities between 2000 and 2008.

museum

Upper City Mint Museum of the Riven Art Center

Geve Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture

Becquerel Museum of Modern Art

• Becquerel Museum of Modern Art
• Gepeili Library
• Two Carolina Flying Museum
• Fire Education Center and Museum in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
• Charlotte Museum of Nature
• Charlotte Pushcart Museum
• Discovery Square
• Harvey Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture
• Historic Rosdale Estates
• Museum of New South Levin
• The Light Factory
• Michael Cole Center for Art and Innovation
• Mint Museum
• National Motor Racing Association Hall of Fame
• Wells Fargo Museum of History
• Charlotte Museum of History

Performing arts

• Charlotte Theater
• Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
• Charlotte Ballet
• Charlotte Symphony
• Charlotte Shakespeare
• Imagine
• Music factories in North Carolina
• Carolina Opera
• cosmic citizen
• Charlotte Theater
• Renaissance Carolina

Celebrations and special events

There are many annual celebrations and special events in the Charlotte area. The Renaissance Festival in Carolina is open every October and November on Saturday and Sunday. The Carolina Renaissance Festival, at the intersection of Highway 73 and Baiyang Tent Road, is one of the largest Renaissance events in the United States. There are 11 outdoor acrobatic entertainment stages, a 22-hectare village market, an interactive circus, an art and crafts market, a wrestling field and a big banquet. All these celebrations are lined up in a day-long family entertainment.

The Issogo Greek Festival is an award-winning Greek content festival. It started in 1978 and is today one of the biggest cultural events in Charlotte. The festival features Greek cultural exhibitions, original Greek food and homemade snacks, entertainment, music and dance, wine tasting, art, shopping and more.

Charlotte is a three-day festival offering local restaurant tastings, entertainment and children's programs. The festival took place on Trane Street, from Stonewall to 5th Street, and took up six blocks.

Moo and Beer Festival is the annual beer-making and hamburger festival, the largest such event in North Carolina, held in April each year, and includes a variety of national musical performances.

The festival is held at the North Carolina music factory, including hip hop and TV music artists and record jockeys.

The Hero Convention is the annual comic book gathering held at the Charlotte Convention Center in June. The rally, which began in 1982, is one of the oldest and largest independent comic book conferences in the United States.

Comrade Charlotte's pride is held every August, and it's the local LGBT. The 2019 celebration drew 200,000 people on Charlotte City. The proud march of 2017 became the largest march in Charlotte.

Zoos and aquariums

Charlotte is...The largest metropolitan area in the US without zoos."The Charlotte Zoo plans to dedicate 250 hectares of North Carolina natural areas to the Zoo Foundation, which was established in 2008. On August 18, 2012, News Channel 14 reported the plan...It'll take years to achieve the "planned land...Just seven miles from the center of the city."The channel also reported that "...The zoo costs about $300m, and the entire cost comes from private fundraising."Charlotte observers point out that the Embankment Zoo and the North Carolina Zoo, both about 70 miles from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County area, are two "big zoos" that can be visited.

Charlotte Concord, a marine creature in the nearby city of Concord, is also easily accessible from Charlotte. The 30,000-square-foot aquarium is part of the Concord Mill Mall. It opened on February 20, 2014.

Charlotte has three major professional teams in the national league: The Carolina Panthers, NBA Charlotte Hornets and Charlotte MSL, the future team of the Major League Professional Football League, will play the National Football League. The Panthers have been in Charlotte since they were founded in 1995, and the Hornets have been in Charlotte since they were founded in 2004. The base site for the Panthers is Bank of America Stadium, and the base for the Hornets is in the spectral center. The Panthers won six regional league championship titles (1996, 2003, 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and two national American football league championship titles (2003 and 2015). Charlotte twice reached the Super Bowl, but has not succeeded since, losing to the New England Patriots in 2003 in the 38th Super Bowl and to the Denver Broncos in 2016 in the 50th Super Bowl. Jerry Richardson founded the Panthers with local business men. When Richardson sold the Panthers in autumn 2017, the billionaire David Tepper bought the team in May 2018.

The Hornets today was a team from the original NBA Hornets team, founded in 1988, and was transferred to New Orleans, Louisiana in 2002 after a clash between soccer fans and the team's owner, George Sheehan. The N.B.A. quickly agreed that the Hornets would leave and form a team in Charlotte, a new team called Charlotte Short Tail founded in 2004. The team that moved to New Orleans in 2013 changed its name to New Orleans Pelicans and then renamed the Hornets in Charlotte. It was officially renamed on May 20, 2014. The same day, the New Team recovered the original Hornets history and records of 1988-2002. The 2019 Major League Professional Football League awarded Charlotte its expansion team, which plans to start competing in 2021.

The hockey team Charlotte and the baseball team Charlotte Cavaliers are AAA professional teams for their respective categories.

The National Junior College Sports Association is based in Charlotte. It is the second largest inter-college sports organization in the United States, with more than 500 schools in 43 states. The headquarters of Yugoslavia are also in Charlotte. It was established in 1983 and has 11 member organizations, including 19 sports, and is part of the First Level Alliance of the National University Sports Association.

Charlotte has hosted many international, inter-college and professional sporting events over the years. Charlotte held the NBA All-Star Game twice in 1991 and 2019. Charlotte holds the Atlantic Coast League championship. Charlotte holds Atlantic Coast League men's basketball games many times.], most recently in 2019. The 2014 PGA Championship was held at the Charlotte Horror Valley Club.

Charlotte 49, a sports team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will take part in the NCAA Class 1. The 49th team has participated in 11 NCAA men's basketball matches and 14 men's football matches, and first participated in the Bowl in 2019 six years after its American football team started.

Athletes from Johnson Smith and Queen Charlotte University will take part in the NCAA Level 2. Johnson Wales University is a member of the American College of Physical Education.

Charlotte uses a parliamentary-managerial government. The mayors and municipal councils are elected every two years and there is no limit to their terms of office. The Mayor, who also serves as President of the Parliament, votes only when the parliamentary vote is deadlocked. Unlike other parliamentary-managerial government cities, Mayor Charlotte can veto parliamentary resolutions. But if Parliament votes by a two-thirds majority, the mayor's veto is invalid. The Council appointed a municipal manager to be its administrative officer.

Unlike other cities in North Carolina, Charlotte's election is based on a partisan base.

On December 2, 2013, Patrick Cannon, a Democrat, was elected mayor. Cannon was arrested on March 26, 2014 for corruption. Cannon resigned the same day. The interim mayor, Michael Barnes, served until April 7, after which the city chose Dan Clodfeldt, a State Councilor Democrat, as mayor, and his term of office lasted until the end of the former Cannon term. In 2015, Jennifer Roberts, the former chairman of the Mecklenburg County Council, won the Democratic Party's Democratic Party contest against Mr. Clodfeldt before winning the election, becoming the first Democratic woman to be elected mayor of Charlotte. In 2017, Roberts lost the party primary to interim Mayor Vail Rice, who then defeated his Republican rival to become Charlotte's 59th mayor. She was re-elected in 2019.

Historically, voters in Charlotte were close to moderates in both parties. But in recent years Charlotte has been leaning against the Democrats. Republicans are concentrated in the south-east of the city, while Democrats are concentrated in the south-central, east and north.

There are 11 members of the Council (7 from the districts and 4 from the entire city). The Democrats now have a 9-to-2 majority in Parliament, winning all city seats in the 2013, 2015 and 2017 elections. Because the municipalities in North Carolina do not have autonomous powers, the Council of North Carolina can override all decisions of the city council, even though it can pass resolutions, decide on municipal budgets and set rules. Despite the expansion of local government power in the 1960s, the State Council still had a strong power over local government.

charlotte is divided into two constituencies in the federal election. The Southeast is in the 9th district, and its MP is Republican Dan Bischoff. The majority of Charlotte is in the 12th district, and its MP is Democrat Alma Adams.

Charlotte was chosen in 2011 as the site of the 2012 Democratic Convention, held at the Spectrum Center from September 4 to September 6, 2012. Charlotte was chosen in 2018 as the site of the 2020 Republican convention, which will take place in August 2020.

The better known school is Belk.

school

Charlotte's Public School System Charlotte-Mecklenburg is the second largest public school system in North Carolina and the 17th largest in the United States. In 2009, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System received several national education progress evaluation awards, and in a total of 18 school systems it won the fourth grade math gold medal and the eighth grade silver medal. There are 164 primary, secondary and high schools in the school system, with an estimated total of 144,000 students.

Universities and colleges

Student Alliance Campus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte has a number of universities and colleges, including Center Piedmont Community College, Johnson Smith University, Strong Wales University, Queen Charlotte University and Charlotte University of North Carolina. Some famous colleges are located on the outskirts of the metropolitan area. Davidson Academy is in Davidson, and US News and World Report ranks it in the top ten at the National Liberal Arts Academy. Other local schools include Belmont University, Gaston University and Wenge University. Other nearby are Winthrop University, Clinton Junior College, York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Gardner-Weber University in the far west of Charlotte.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is the largest university in Charlotte. It is located in University City, northeast of Charlotte, and is also home to 3,200 hectares of research and corporate field university research parks. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with 29,000 students, is the third largest branch in the university's system.

The Central Piedmont Community College is the largest community college in two Carolina, with 70,000 students each year, and six campuses spread across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region. It's part of the North Carolina Interstate Community College system.

The Charlotte Law School began enrollment in 2006 and was fully recognized by the American Bar Association in 2011. It had also granted a PhD in law, but in 2017 the Bar Association revoked that recognition. The school stopped teaching today.

The University of Fife has a satellite campus in Charlotte. The main campus, Wake Forest University in Winston-Cold, opened a satellite campus of its management school in Upper Charlotte. The Connecticut Broadcasting College, Derry University and ECPI University have branches in Charlotte. The Nascar Institute of Technology is located nearby. Monterey College has a professional and adult school in Charlotte. The Joint Presbyterian Seminary, which has a dormitory-free campus in Charlotte, is awarded a master's degree in Christian education and a master's degree in theology.

The North Carolina Research Park is a 350-hectare biotechnological cluster located in Kannapolis, northeast of Charlotte. It's a public-private collaborative space where eight universities, a community college, the US Department of Agriculture and corporate facilities work together on health, nutrition, and agriculture. Collaborative educational organizations include the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ron-Cabarus Community College, Appalachian State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, State University of Agricultural Technology in North Carolina, Shaw University, Central University of North Carolina and State University of North Carolina. The research park is part of efforts by Charlotte regional leaders to attract energy, health and other knowledge-based industries, with the aim of strengthening North Carolina's biotechnology capabilities.

library

Imagine a children's theater and library

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, which has 1.5m books, CDs and DVDs, has 15 branches in the city and five in the surrounding towns. All branches have free Internet access computers and Wi-Fi, and one card can be used in all 20 branches.

The State Carnegie Library, which dates back to the Charlotte Literary and Library Association, which opened on January 16, 1891, is today in North Terion, the first library open to the public without membership. The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $25,000 to build the library building on the condition that the city of Charlotte contribute its property and pay $2,500 a year for books and salaries, and that the State of North Carolina designate regulations for the library. All of these conditions were met, and on July 2, 1903, the Carnegie Library opened in a solemn classical building.

The 1903 North Carolina regulations required libraries to serve Charlotte's disenfranchised African americans. In 1905, an independent library was opened in the historically black region of Charlotte to meet the requirements of the regulations. It is the first library in North Carolina for African americans, and some sources say it's the southernmost. The neighborhood was reopened after World War II, and the library was closed, but its role as the Charlotte African American Cultural Center was inherited by other libraries and the Charlotte African American Cultural Center.

newspaper

Charlotte has a big day for Charlotte Watcher. It's the largest distribution in North and South Carolina, but it's been declining over the last 15 years.

radio

Charlotte is the 24th largest radio market in the United States, according to Nielsen. The big broadcasters include Enterprise Communications, Clear Channel Communications and Urban One, which have radio stations in Charlotte, and some smaller stations there.

TV

Charlotte, Radio Nielsen's market research agency, is the 22nd largest US television market (2016-17 season) and the largest TV market in North Carolina. CBS Television WBTV3 (two of Carolina's oldest stations), ABC WSOC-TV9, NBC WCNC-TV36, CW TV WCCB18 and PR TV WTVI42 are among the major stations in Charlotte. The two sports cable networks are based in Charlotte: the SEC network controlled by ESPN and the regional Fox Sports Carolina.

Other TV stations serving the Charlotte market include WJZY46, Fox Broadcasting Corporation, WUNG-TV58, WAXN-TV64, MyNetworkTV WMYT-TV55 and WNSC-TV30.

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public service

medical first aid service

The Mecklenburg County Medical First Aid Service provides first aid to Charlotte. The first aid service received 146,000 calls in 2017, sending 112,000 patients across Mecklenburg County. The organization has more than 600 nursing, first aid doctors, first aid technicians and managers. In addition to sending medical aid, the agency is also responsible for sending fire fighters outside Charlotte.

hospital

There are eight hospitals in Charlotte.

fire fighting

The Charlotte Fire Department, which has 1,164 staff, provides fire fighting, medical emergency, public education, elimination of hazardous materials, technical rescue and fire prevention and inspection services. There are 42 fire brigades in the city that are located at key locations throughout the city to ensure that the fire brigades are able to reach all locations in the city quickly.

Law enforcement and crime

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is a cooperative law enforcement agency in Charlotte and Mecklenburg Counties. It is responsible for law enforcement in the city of Charlotte and outside Charlotte, Mecklenburg County. Other towns in Mecklenburg have their own law enforcement agencies. The police station has 1,700 police officers, 550 staff and more than 400 volunteers. The police division divided the entire district into 13 geographical areas, each of which was different in size and the number of police officers assigned. The overall crime index in Charlotte has been declining since 2005 to 589.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. The US crime index averages 320.9 of 100,000 people. An average of 4,939 cars are stolen in Charlotte every year.

According to Congress's quarterly "2008 Crime Cities Ranking: City crime in the United States "Charlotte ranks 62nd among cities with a population of 75,000 or more. But the entire Charlotte metropolitan area is the 27th most dangerous of the 338 metropolitan areas of the United States.

garbage disposal

Charlotte has a city-owned garbage collection system that consists of three parts: garbage collection, sewage treatment and garbage disposal. Charlotte Water has five sewage treatment stations. Charlotte has a biosolid project. The sludge generated by the project was treated and transported to the ground owned by the Carlyle Group's subsidiaries for spreading as fertilizer. The level of these biosolids is B, meaning that they still contain detectable pathogens. As a result, some local residents expressed opposition to the project on February 26, 2013.

traffic

November 2007 Launch of light rail in the Charlotte area

Charlotte Regional Transport System Brand Street station

Charlotte's car-free households are lower than the American average. 7.4% of households in Charlotte had no cars in 2015, down to 6% in 2016. The US averaged 8.7% in 2016. Charlotte had an average of 1.65 cars per household in 2016, compared with 1.8 in the United States.

rail transit

The Charlotte Regional Transportation System operates rail traffic in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. It operates light rail transport systems, trams, fast shuttles and bus services. These services are in Charlotte and in the suburbs. Its light rail system runs 9.6 miles from south to north through the city, and in its first year of operation, it expects to reach more passengers by 2025. Bus passengers are also growing (66% since 1998). The 2030 Transport Corridor System plans to add bus and light rail and commuter rail lines. In 2011, Charlotte and Charlotte traffic system staff held a public rally to show the public the final environmental impact analysis of the extension of the light rail line from Upper Charlotte to the University of North Carolina campus, and to collect feedback from residents, landlords and entrepreneurs from the northeast. The road was officially opened on March 16, 2018.

walk

In 2020, Charlotte ranked 17th in the list of 50 of the largest US cities that measured walking.

Roads and highways

Charlotte is located between two population centers in the northeast and southeast, making it a transit hub and distribution center, with two interstate highways 85 and 77 crossing near the city center. 77 also links the rust belt population center.

Charlotte Loop number is Interstate 485, and residents call it 485. The road has been built for more than 20 years, and funding problems have made it slow. The final paragraph was completed in mid-2015. It's about 108 kilometers long. Downtown Interstate 277 surrounds Charlotte City, and Charlotte 4 forms a roundabout linking important highways between Interstate 277 and 485. 74 US National Highway links Lower City and the Matthews region, and is currently expanding in the east of the city.

aviation

Charlotte Douglas International Airport, set on the curtain of Charlotte City

Charlotte Douglas International Airport is the sixth busiest airport in the United States and the world by traffic. In 2019, 50m passengers and many US and international airlines such as Air Canada, Lufthansa and Wallaris used Charlotte Airport. It is an important hub for American Airlines, formerly the hub of American Airlines and Piedmont. Charlotte offers direct flights across the United States, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and South America.

inter-city transport

Three Métro buses converge in Charlotte, with 10 buses arriving every day at North Trane Street Station next to the city.

• The Crescent links Charlotte to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.; It links Charlotte Town and Greensboro North, Greenville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Mordeen and New Orleans South. The bus runs from two directions to Charlotte every night
• The Carolina train links Charlotte to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Durham and Greensboro. Charlotte is the southern end of the bus. The north-bound train leaves every morning, and the south-bound train arrives in the evening.
• The Pilmont is a regional Carlerona train that links Charlotte, Greensboro, Durham and Rollie and runs three shifts a day. Charlotte is also the southern end.

The Greyhound Bus and the Cheap Bus Company Superbus also have stations in Charlotte. Greyhound buses to Atlanta, Detroit, Jacksonville, New York and Philadelphia stop in Charlotte. The Super Bus to New York from Atlanta also stops in Charlotte.

Charlotte plans to build a central multi-vehicle station called the Gate Station. The US Railway, the Greyhound bus and the future Light Rail Red Line will all stop here. It's in construction right now, and it's in the old Greyhound Bus Station, and the current Greyhound Bus Station is moving to a nearby temporary station.

Charlotte has nine friendly cities:

Charlotte has signed a friendly city agreement with Port-au-Prince in western Haiti, but the relationship appears dormant.

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