SOURCE: Central Piedmont Community College

“From Wagon Roads to New South City,” a free series of history classes covering four centuries of Charlotte area history, will be offered to the public on five consecutive Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to noon, starting Jan. 30. Sponsored by the Mecklenburg Historical Association Docents, the series will be based on historian Mary Kratt’s book “Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History” and will feature lectures by distinguished members of the region’s academic and history communities.
Participants are asked to register by Jan. 25 and should leave name and contact information with either Alice Bostic (704-527-3251 or alice.bostic@cpcc.edu) or Camille Smith (704-334-2201 or CSmith10@carolina.rr.com).

This series has proved very popular in the past and early registration is encouraged.

Topics and locations

Jan. 30, 9:30 am-noon, – Native Americans and Early Settlement, presented by Ann Evans, Curator at Wm. Elliot White Homestead, at the Charlotte Museum of History.
Feb. 6, 9:30 am-noon, – Charlotte’s Beginnings presented by Leslie Kesler, CMH Historian and Curator; Tom Phlegar, CMH Docent; and the Historical Cooking Guild of the Catawba Valley at the Charlotte Museum of History.

Feb. 13, 9:30 am-noon – 19th Century Charlotte presented by Dr James Hogue, UNCC History Dept.; and Ann and Jim Williams, MHA Docents, at the Levine Museum of the New South.

Feb. 20, 9:30 am-noon, – 20th Century Charlotte presented by Dr. Thomas Hanchett, Historian, Levine Museum, at the Levine Museum of the New South.

Feb. 27, 9:30 am-noon, – Historical Interpretation and Tour of the Church presented by the MHA Docents at Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church.

CORRECTION: The headline on this article originally incorrectly said the classes are on Sundays. As the article says, they are on Saturdays.