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The district is centered on the separately listed Charlotte County Courthouse. Other notable buildings include the former county jail (1936), Brick Tavern (1820), Charlotte County Farm Bureau building, St. John's Masonic Lodge (1852), Charlotte County Public Library (1810, 1836), Village Presbyterian Church and cemetery (1835), Charlotte Court ...
As of 2021 Uptown Charlotte employs 120,000 people [48] across 33 million square feet of office space, [1] hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, and is home to 35,000 residents. [1] [49] Charlotte is the second largest banking center in the country behind New York City.
Interstate 75 was completed through Charlotte County in 1981, and Tucker's Grade would be the freeway's southernmost exit in Charlotte County. Interstate 75 and US 41 are only a mile apart at Tucker's Grade, which is the closest the two highways come to each other south of Tampa . [ 11 ]
The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office was formed in 1921, when Florida Governor Cary A. Hardee appointed school teacher James H. Lipscomb as sheriff for the county; 16 men have served as Sheriff of Charlotte County to date. [8] In its early days, much of its focus was on enforcing laws restricting the sale and use of alcohol under prohibition. [9]
State Road 776 (SR 776) is a 25-mile-long (40 km) state highway serving southern Sarasota County and northwestern Charlotte County, Florida. It acts as a loop road of U.S. Route 41 (US 41) that bypasses North Port .
The original area code, 704, was one of the original 86 numbering plan areas (NPAs) designated by AT&T in 1947, and originally covered the entire state of North Carolina. . In 1954, the eastern two-thirds of the state–everything from Winston-Salem eastward–was split off as area code 919. 704 was reduced to the western third of the state, from Charlotte through the Blue Ridge Mountains to ...
The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area of the U.S. states of North and South Carolina, containing the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.The metropolitan area also includes the cities of Gastonia, Concord, Huntersville, and Rock Hill as well as the large suburban area in the counties surrounding Mecklenburg County, which is at the center of the metro area.
[15] [16] On September 11, 1981, the new freeway was named the John Belk Freeway, in honor of John M. Belk, businessperson and Mayor of Charlotte from 1969–1977. [13] The first segment of the John Belk Freeway opened sometime between 1982 and 1984, it followed the former connector from the Brookshire Freeway south to 3rd/4th streets and ...