Charlotte, North Carolina, ca 2018
This is a used AGPostcards.com card with a photograph of Charlotte, North Carolina by Alex Grichenko. A friend sent this card in 2018 and the estimated date of the photo is based on that. The picture is of Uptown Charlotte and shows the skyline at night. It does not have a blurb or any other information on the reverse except the publisher/printer/photographer.
Charlotte is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and has a population of almost 900,000. It was named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz who had become the queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland around 1761. The city of Charlotte was sometimes referred to as “Queen City.” Another nickname was “The Hornet’s Nest” by the British commander General Charles Cornwallis. During the American Revolution he wrote that Charlotte was a “hornet’s nest of rebellion.”
During the years between 2004 and 2014 Charlotte was among the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas. The climate is subtropical and humid. Spanish records from 1567 show that the Catawba Indians were the first known settlers in this area. The early European colonists were primarily Scots-Irish Presbyterians or Ulster-Scot settlers from Northern Ireland. There were also a smaller number of German immigrants who came before the Revolutionary War. The arrival of Europeans also brought smallpox to the colony and resulted in the deaths of the majority of the Catawba who had no natural immunity to the disease.
Today Charlotte has a modern-day banking industry and is second to New York City in the United States.
Many thanks to friends M & D who sent the card.
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