Event Dime

Mecklenburg's Declaration: NC's Revolutionary Presbyterians

When:

September 12, 2026 · 12:00 AM

Where:

Presbyterian Heritage Center, NC

Source:

NC State Parks – Events

An article published in the April 30, 1819 edition of the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette proclaimed the following: “It is not probably known to many of our readers, that the citizens of Mecklenburg County, in this State, made a Declaration of Independence more than a year before Congress made theirs. The following Document on the subject has lately come to the hands of the Editor from unquestionable authority, and is published that it may go down to posterity.” The document in q