Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20, 1775, a date enshrined on North Carolina’s state flag. In the Jan. 14, ...
Art and History, Downtown, Uptown, and Is That a Ghost at Jumel Terrace? Who Cares If Homer Nodded? Wall Street’s Revolutionary War How the American Right Went European The Declaration is not only a ...
Regular readers of this column may remember my interest in the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence dated May 20, 1775, a date enshrined on North Carolina’s state flag. In the Jan. 14 ...
At the beginning of Loudoun County Court Order Book G is this inscription: "Memo: Independence declared the 4th day of July 1776." The news reached Loudoun on July 9, a day after the declaration was ...
Nearly 250 years ago on this day, a little town in North Carolina became central to America's push for freedom from Great Britain. Everyone's heard of the Declaration of Independence. Adopted on July ...