Born and Raised in Charlotte

I was born and raised in Charlotte North Carolina, a place where I call home, and a place where I’d rather be than any other place. Being from Charlotte is a good thing. When I tell people I’m from Charlotte, they say, "Wow" as in that’s a great place to live. Charlotte has many attractions and plenty of things for everyone to enjoy. People say that Charlotte is the gateway to the south -- it all starts in Charlotte. Charlotte is the biggest city in North Carolina, and the 20th largest in the world.

Charlotte was founded in 1755. By Thomas Polk. The uncle of United States president, James k. Polk. One day Thomas was traveling with his family, he stopped and built a house at the intersection between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. Charlotte had a road called the Great Wagon Road; settlers of Scots-Irish and of German descent came from Pennsylvania into the Carolina foothills. Within the first decades in which Thomas Polk settled, the area grew to become the community of "Charlotte Town". Charlotte was named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, wife of King George III of the United Kingdom.

Charlotte was a site of encampment for both the American troops and the British troops during the Revolutionary war. Sometimes the British troops would get into skirmishes with the Charlotteans and therefore the village earned the nickname "Hornets Nest". Today the landmarks still endures, such as my elementary school being named Hornets Nest Elementary, they’ve also had a basketball team called the Charlotte Hornets, a high school being named Independence high school, and a street called Freedom drive.

Charlotte is located in North America ’s humid subtropical climate zone. Charlotte has mild winters and hot, humid summers. In the winter around January the mornings lows average be around 0c [32 f] and afternoon highs average around 11c [51 f]. Where Charlotte is located it is in direct path of subtropical moisture from the gulf as it heads up the eastern seaboard. Charlotte receives [very little rain and] about 43.52in annually. There are many Ice storms in the winter. In 1989 Charlotte took a big hit from hurricane Hugo. The storm passed through Charlotte with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour, Hurricane Hugo caused massive property damage and knocked out power to 98 percent of the population. Many residents were without power for several weeks and the cleanup took several weeks to complete. Over 80,000 trees were destroyed in Charlotte. The storm knocked out 1.2 million Duke Power customers.

Charlotte has become a major U.S. financial center. Charlotte has the second largest and fourth largest financial institutions, both Bank of America and Wachovia. Charlotte has the largest skyscraper between the states of Philadelphia and Atlanta. Their tallest building stands 871 feet tall and was completed in 1992 The tall buildings is what makes Charlotte’s skyline look great and makes Charlotte a very attractive place to live.

Charlotte is also a sports town with many sports attractions for any sports fan. They have baseball, basketball, football, arena football, and hockey. The sports attractions is what makes Charlotte a great city; because of the atmosphere, the people in Charlotte are nicer than the people in other big cities because on a statistic shows the 10 cities where the people are most rude with Florida being number one and Charlotte not being named. One of Charlotte’s most famous attraction is their Amusement park; Carowinds; it is a fun place to go it has over one thousand rides, many say that Carowinds is better than Atlanta’s Six flags.

I like the city that I was born and raised in, knowing the history of your city and how it was founded makes a difference because you know how your city started out, its background and the very important people who founded it.