Charlotte
| City in southern North Carolina, USA, on the border with South Carolina; seat of Mecklenburg County; population (2000 est) 540,800. Industries include printing, microelectronics, data processing, textiles, chemicals, machinery, and food products. Settled around 1750, it was the gold-mining centre of the USA until gold was discovered in California (1849). Charlotte enjoyed rapid |
| growth in the 1970s, and is the largest city in the state. |
FeaturesCharlotte is the seat of several colleges including Queens College (1857), Johnson C Smith University (1867), and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1965). University buildings are among the city's 57 entries on the national register of historic places. The Mint Museum of Arts contains paintings, sculpture, and ceramics. Two US presidents were born near Charlotte: the 7th president, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), in the rural Waxhaw area, and the 11th president, James Polk (1795–1849), in Little Sugar Creek. |
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