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Keynote speaker Sarah Smarsh at the 2019 Schul Forum

The 2019 Schul Forum

Categories: Gallery, Mecklenburg
Charlotte's 1903 Carnegie Library, one of thousands built by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Photo: UNC Charlotte, Atkins Library, Special Collections

Charlotte’s library through the decades

Charlotte has had four main libraries on the same site since 1903. Here’s a look at them, and what the changing architecture says about our city.

Freshly picked squash at the Sandhills AGInnovation Center. Photo: Nancy Pierce.

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center promotes farming

Categories: Gallery, Richmond Tags: AGRICULTURE, Farming

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center works to nurture rural farmers in Richmond and Montgomery counties, while connecting them to urban markets.

Davon Goodwin, manager of Sandhills AGInnovation Center in Ellerbee, NC, inspects crops. Photo: Nancy Pierce

Innovative agriculture connects farmers to urban centers

The Sandhills AGInnovation Center works to nurture rural farmers in Richmond and Montgomery counties, while connecting them to urban markets.

Cramerton takes pride in its history of producing "Army khaki" for U.S. military uniforms during World War II. Photo: Nancy Pierce.

Transforming the South Fork of the Catawba River and its towns

Categories: Gallery, Gaston Tags: Habitat, Nature, Open Space, River

Cramerton has turned to the South Fork of the Catawba River, which once powered mills and was known as a hotbed of pollution, to help power the town’s revival in the wake of the textile industry.

Street art celebrates Don Gibson's music in Shelby. Photo: Nancy Pierce

Downtown Shelby turns to music for a revival

Music has helped power the revival of downtown (or uptown, as the locals call it) Shelby. The Earl Scruggs Center and Don Gibson Theatre draw on the town’s musical history.

Population in the 32 counties in 2018.

Population growth in the 32-county study area starting in 1850

Clayton Hanson & Laura Simmons | Aug 26, 2019 Click anywhere on the map below to pause and play. Each dot represents 500 people. The dots are distributed randomly within each county and are not intended to correspond to specific places, but instead to give a general sense of the number of people residing in […]