Country doctor Walter P. Craven and his family resided in the Hopewell community of Mecklenburg County for nearly eighty years. 

For three generations, local farmer and politician Thomas Gluyas and his family resided in the Gluyas House in Mecklenburg County’s Long Creek community. 

The early 19th-century Long Creek Mill, later known as Whitley's Mill was the last operating grist mill in north Mecklenburg County. 

McIntyre’s Farm was the site of an October 1780 battle that prompted Lord Charles Cornwallis and his occupying British forces to beat a hasty retreat from Charlotte. 

One of Mecklenburg County’s six surviving Rosenwald schools, the Newell Rosenwald School educated generations of African American children while symbolizing local resistance to segregation. 

The Richard Wearn House evidences the brief success of Charlotte’s gold mining industry during the early to mid-1800s.

Designed by prominent Charlotte architect C. C. Hooks, the Thrift Depot is the last surviving station of Mecklenburg County’s once-thriving Piedmont and Northern Railroad Company. 

The Thrift Mill, unique for its rural setting, was one of the last big cotton mills constructed during Mecklenburg County’s textile mill boon. 

The W. D. Beaty House was part of the sizable landholdings of the Beaty family in the late 1800s and much of the twentieth century. 

The Williams Memorial Presbyterian Church Wall and Marker are among several fieldstone structures erected by a Mecklenburg County resident to honor the county’s rich history.