https://charlottehandbook.com/ A Charlotte guide where every fact carries a source and a date. New and re-verified pages. en-us https://charlottehandbook.com/outdoors/greenways/https://charlottehandbook.com/outdoors/greenways/Mecklenburg County's greenways are not, strictly speaking, footpaths. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/how-designation-works/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/how-designation-works/If you have looked into an old Charlotte building you will have met both phrases, often on the same property, and they are not the same thing. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/planned-suburbs/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/planned-suburbs/Drive through Dilworth, Myers Park or Elizabeth and the streets curve where a developer working to a grid would have run them straight. https://charlottehandbook.com/getting-around/https://charlottehandbook.com/getting-around/Charlotte is a driving city with a usable spine of rail and a greenway network that does more work than visitors expect. https://charlottehandbook.com/places-of-worship/https://charlottehandbook.com/places-of-worship/What this is, and what it is not. This is a researched selection of Charlotte's faith communities, not a directory of every congregation in the city. https://charlottehandbook.com/about/how-we-choose/https://charlottehandbook.com/about/how-we-choose/Some businesses on this site are here because we have a direct interest in them. We say so, every time, on the page itself. https://charlottehandbook.com/living-here/libraries/https://charlottehandbook.com/living-here/libraries/Charlotte Mecklenburg Library runs 23 locations across the county. https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/charlotte-museum-of-history/https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/charlotte-museum-of-history/The oldest building in Charlotte is not in Uptown. https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/bechtler-museum/https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/bechtler-museum/Most museum collections are assembled. This one was lived with. https://charlottehandbook.com/outdoors/carolina-raptor-center/https://charlottehandbook.com/outdoors/carolina-raptor-center/It started with one bird. In 1975 someone brought an injured broad-winged hawk to Dr Richard Brown, an ornithologist at UNC Charlotte. https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/historic-rosedale/https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/historic-rosedale/The neighbours called it Frew's Folly. https://charlottehandbook.com/services/printing/charlotte-print/https://charlottehandbook.com/services/printing/charlotte-print/Charlotte-Print is a print counter inside The UPS Store on Prosperity Church Road, in the Mallard Crossing centre in University City. https://charlottehandbook.com/services/mail/charlotte-mailbox/https://charlottehandbook.com/services/mail/charlotte-mailbox/Charlotte Mailbox rents private mailboxes from a staffed counter in the Mallard Crossing centre on Prosperity Church Road, near Mallard Creek in northeast… https://charlottehandbook.com/services/device-repair/charlotte-tech-repair/https://charlottehandbook.com/services/device-repair/charlotte-tech-repair/Charlotte Tech Repair is an independent repair shop in Town Center Plaza on East W.T. https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/dilworth/https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/dilworth/Dilworth was laid out for Edward Dilworth Latta, and it kept his middle name. https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/noda-north-charlotte/https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/noda-north-charlotte/NoDa is short for North Davidson, the street it grew up along. The name is recent; the place is not. https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/historic-west-end/https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/historic-west-end/West of Uptown, around the campus of Johnson C. https://charlottehandbook.com/day-trips/https://charlottehandbook.com/day-trips/A note on the geography before anything else, because guides to Charlotte get this wrong constantly. https://charlottehandbook.com/walks/trail-of-history/https://charlottehandbook.com/walks/trail-of-history/1.3 miles one way · paved · Midtown Charlotte https://charlottehandbook.com/walks/west-charlotte-greenways/https://charlottehandbook.com/walks/west-charlotte-greenways/Charlotte's greenway attention goes almost entirely to Little Sugar Creek. https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/university-city/https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/university-city/Charlotte's north-eastern quarter is organised around a university, a boulevard and a rail line, and that is more interesting than it sounds — because it… https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/levine-center-for-the-arts/https://charlottehandbook.com/things-to-do/levine-center-for-the-arts/Two blocks of South Tryon Street hold four cultural institutions, which makes this the most efficient cultural afternoon in Charlotte: you can walk between… https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/halal/https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/halal/Start with the thing most guides won't tell you: no halal certification body publishes a certified list covering Charlotte. https://charlottehandbook.com/places-of-worship/where-to-pray/https://charlottehandbook.com/places-of-worship/where-to-pray/Most city guides will tell you where the cathedral is. https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/alcohol-free/https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/alcohol-free/A city that markets itself on breweries can be a hard place to spend an evening if you don't drink — whether that's for faith, recovery, pregnancy… https://charlottehandbook.com/living-here/first-weeks/https://charlottehandbook.com/living-here/first-weeks/The admin, in the order it usually bites. https://charlottehandbook.com/for-business-owners/https://charlottehandbook.com/for-business-owners/Company formation and registered agent requirements are handled by the North Carolina Secretary of State, not by the city or county. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/brooklyn/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/brooklyn/If you stand in Charlotte's Second Ward today — among the government buildings, the car parks and Marshall Park — you are standing on the site of a… https://charlottehandbook.com/history/architecture/uptown-walk/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/architecture/uptown-walk/Twenty-four properties on the National Register of Historic Places sit inside a roughly twenty-five-block area of Uptown Charlotte. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/cemeteries/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/cemeteries/Uptown Charlotte's largest public green space is a cemetery — and the way it was laid out tells you more about the city than most museums will. https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/historic-series/https://charlottehandbook.com/neighbourhoods/historic-series/Charlotte is often described as a city that knocked down its own past. https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/clt-layover/https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/clt-layover/Most people who pass through Charlotte never see Charlotte. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/gold/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/gold/Charlotte is a banking city. https://charlottehandbook.com/history/lost-places/https://charlottehandbook.com/history/lost-places/Getting a building onto the National Register of Historic Places is a long, careful, evidence-heavy process. https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/funerals/https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/funerals/If someone has just died and you are looking for what to do next, the practical section is first. https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/sunday/https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/sunday/This is not a list of what's on. Things that are on change; this page is about the things that don't. https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/accessibility/https://charlottehandbook.com/practical/accessibility/Everything on this page is what an organisation publishes about its own accessibility, quoted or closely paraphrased, dated, and linked to the source. https://charlottehandbook.com/community/languages/https://charlottehandbook.com/community/languages/This page is about the organisations in Charlotte that work across languages — who they are, what they say they do, and how to reach them. https://charlottehandbook.com/getting-around/parking/https://charlottehandbook.com/getting-around/parking/Most parking advice for Charlotte is a list of prices, and most of it is wrong by the time you read it. https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/social-districts/https://charlottehandbook.com/eat-and-drink/social-districts/A social district is a defined area where you may walk around outdoors with an open drink.