The Mecklenburg County Fire Marshal's Office has four core objectives that ensure exceptional delivery of public safety services to our customers and the different communities that we service throughout the year: Investigation, Education, Prevention, and Protection.

The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner's Office (MCMEO) mission is to provide county morgue and medical examiner/forensic pathology services to the citizens of Mecklenburg County. The MCMEO also provides consultation and forensic pathology services to five regional counties; Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston and Union. 

Three board certified Forensic Pathologists are responsible for overseeing each death investigation conducted at the facility, totaling approximately 1300 annually. The MCMEO interacts with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to assist in death investigations. The Forensic Pathologists provide expert testimony in court reporting their findings on the cause and manner of death. 

The Mecklenburg County Attorney Office provides a broad range of legal services to the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners and all County officials. These services aim to promote the public service objectives of the County.     

The Office of Strategy & Innovation is a division of the Mecklenburg County Manager’s Office. The division is responsible for developing and managing the County’s corporate strategic business plan, coordinating with department directors on strategic planning, managing the annual Employee Climate Survey and assisting with other internal priorities throughout the organization.  

The Mecklenburg County Public Information Department provides news and information that keeps residents and employees informed about County initiatives, policies, programs, services and the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. The department uses a variety of communication channels to help enhance transparency, increase civic engagement and to tell the Mecklenburg County story.   

A Depression-era PWA-funded school that served the Plaza Midwood community for more than 75 years.

For more than a century, the First United Presbyterian Church has housed the successors of the original congregation members who hand-built the Gothic Revival edifice themselves.

Started in 1917, the Ratcliffe Florist Shop served uptown Charlotte from its William Peeps-designed Mediterranean Revival building from 1929 to 1989.

The Louis Asbury designed Thies Automobile Sales and Service Building remains as one of North Tryon Street’s last examples of 1920s commercial-style architecture.

Home of an early 20th-century electric engine repair company whose services supported the growth of Charlotte’s textile industry during the transition from coal-power steam to electricity.