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Note: telephone area code is 704
(see also Belmont - west of airport)

Hezekiah Alexander Homesite - Charlotte NC

Dating back to 1774, the Homesite is the oldest dwelling still standing in Mecklenburg County. Built of native stone, it shares the grounds with a newly expanded and remodeled Charlotte Museum of History. 3500 Shamrock Drive in the City of Charlotte, NC. Phone: (704) 558-1774

More Information: http://www.mbsi.org/MBSMuseums.html

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Historic Latta Plantation - Huntersville (north of Charlotte)

Located in Latta Plantation Park on the shore of Mountain Island Lake ( just 6 miles north of Charlotte) is historic Latta Plantation, a living history museum showing life in the North Carolina back country during the early 19th century. You will learn what it was like to be a planter, a slave, a merchant, or a yeoman farmer. Costumed docents offer regularly scheduled tours and impart little-known, interesting facts about the settlers of the area. Besides the ca. 1800 Latta house, you will find a kitchen house, a meat house, a well house, barns, and assorted other outbuildings. A reproduction log cabin shows how the yeoman farmers lived. Various barnyard residents interest youngsters and everyone else. During special events many different country skills are demonstrated.

From Labor Day through Memorial Day (winter schedule) the grounds are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10a to 4:30p and Sundays from 1p to 4:30p. Memorial Day through Labor Day (summer schedule) we are also open Mondays. The gift Shop is open until 5p. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.

Group tours and discounts are available upon request for groups of 10 or more.

Take exit 18 of I-77 and follow Vance Road west to the Mt Holly-Huntersville Road (about 1˝ miles). Take a left (toward Mt Holly) and proceed about 1Ľ miles to Beatties Ford Road. Turn right, proceed another1˝ miles and turn left onto Sample Road. Another mile and you're at the gate. E-mail: kthompson@lattaplantation.org ; Telephone: 875-2312.

More Information: http://www.lattaplantation.org
See also: Latta Plantation Park