On this day in 1988: Taping a TV special, magician David Copperfield, handcuffed and locked in a safe, escapes from the old Hotel Charlotte moments before its implosion. The 12-story hotel has been closed since 1973, but in its heyday it was Charlotte’s finest. Among its guests: Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson and […]
Archive for November 6th, 2012
For Hotel Charlotte, a final moment of boom times
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Edenton Celebrates 300 Years
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Edenton kicks off its anniversary celebrations today at noon with the ringing of the Chowan County Courthouse bells 300 times. The town dates its beginning to the passage of an act in the colonial Assembly calling for “building a Court house to hold the Assembly in, at the fork of Queen Ann’s Creek commonly called […]
