This Tuesday, marks 250 years since citizens of Mecklenburg County say they became the first American colonists to declare ...

Following the American Civil War, a group of freed people fled violence and bought land in Western North Carolina. In the ...

By Steve Preston Special to NKyTribune We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...