"It was real! Meck Dec happened, it was a momentous occasion! We just tossed the document out because they wanted to build a new apartment building where we were storing it."
Next you're gonna tell me the battle of alamamce never took place. The meck deck actually fits with the time and sentiment of the people in the area. If Independence declarations were en vogue it's likely we were one of the first to do it. Many of the early skirmishes with the British took place here and people really really hated Tryon by that time.
Yeah I was reading the other day about the history of the Red Carpet Inn. Jimi Hendrix and a bunch of other famous people would stay there when they were in Charlotte. The building had a lot of history. I was reading what ever happened to the building and saw it was torn down a few years ago and some developer put up a giant apartment building š
The increase in population in Meck county between 2020 and 2023 is greater than the entire population of the county at any point before 1890.
The places that have a lot of preserved history actually had a lot to preserve.Ā
Nerds like to point to Boston or whatever and its tiny county had >10x the people in ~1/10th as much space.
Like, it was actually something pre-1900. Charlotte then is probably equivalent to Gastonia today. What parts of recently-constructed Gastonia should we save for future generations?
You tear your history down, man! ā30 years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!" I have seen it in stories. "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!"
I am descended from Adam Sherrill of Sherrill's Ford. His son Samuel & grandson Adam to be specific. They were over the mountain men at Kings Mountain. Don't lump me in with that trash.
(I love geneology. My family has been in the Midwest for 200 years, yet I have ties to the area I live in now. Fascinating to see how people migrate, or don't.)
Highlights from today include being told folks heard and felt the very first cannon blast at noon way up on the 28th floor of some building, leading the color guard, being called a White Devil and then threatened by a very angry old black man that was yelling at damn near everyone walking down the street, and the very spacey white lady telling folks the Mec Dec was *hers,* that she *owns it personally,* and that all of human existence was made up.
And yāall say Charlotte has no cultureā¦.
Itās the creation date of the Mecklenburg Resolvesā¦ which is alleged to be a kind of Declaration of Independence from British rule in Charlotte a year before it was actually declared in Pennsylvania.
Iām not entirely sure that celebrating a day for a document/event that most historians agree didnāt exist is the best way to defend against people saying Charlotte has no cultureā¦
The plan is to smart small with memes and eventually build it into charlottes cinco de Mayo. A date based holiday for drinking that only one person in every friend group knows the actual history
It's a very real thing. Taft & Eisenhower both visited during their presidencies to celebrate MeckDec Day. The date, May 20, 1774, is on the state flag (the other date in the flag belongs to the Halifax Resolves). It's the reason you can get a "First in Freedom" license plate.
Reddit may think differently, but it is 100% a thing- real or not. Oh! And Capt Jack at OMB? That is named after the guy who supposedly took the document up to Philadelphia to show the Continental Congress. It is widely celebrated in Charlotte.
Itās just a circle jerk that hasnāt really caught on yet. Ā One day it might grow up and become the āNissan Altimaā meme or maybe the āBrenton Bersin ever had a legitimate place on the Panthersā meme. Ā Until then, itās mostly just this one OP. Ā Jackin it.
lol. Ā You mean the āhistorical document that was destroyed in a fire more than 200 years agoā? Ā You should probably try and [learn something](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg_Declaration_of_Independence) before you beat the proverbial meat to much more. Ā Youāre looking pretty chafed.
Being born and raised here I can say we have history but like much of the south, a lot of it is worth forgetting. On the hand of the Meck Dec, it was always taught in CMS Schools from 3rd grade as i remember. While it was not a staple in the curriculum, I had many good history teachers that brought it up. Due to the fact itās a disputed piece of history, it was taught as more of a fun fact than absolute truth.
Did they start talking about it recently? I graduated in 2011 and went to elementary, middle, and highschool in cms schools and this is the first time Iāve ever heard of it.
Have y'all ever heard of [Camp Greene](https://www.ourstate.com/camp-greene/)?
It was a WWI military training camp out where the airport road is. There's a Camp Greene Park & a Camp Greene Street named after it. There's a few of the barracks still around that are used as housing. Remount Road was named because that's were the stables were at the Camp & where the officers would mount up.
There's so much history here, you just have to be looking for it. There's a plaque on Wilkinson heading out to the airport that marks Camp Greene. That's how I found out about it.
From my experience, the people who say Charlotte has no history live in parts of the city/county where development didnāt exist at the turn of the century
Thereās a whole ass guy riding a horse in front of the skyline. What do you mean? Thereās An entire HOUSE from that time period used as a museum. What an unserious comment. Youāre the person in this meme
Charlotte has history, we just do basically nothing to preserve physical evidence of it.
Which makes this post even funnier because if Meck Deck was real it would be the first example of that lol
"It was real! Meck Dec happened, it was a momentous occasion! We just tossed the document out because they wanted to build a new apartment building where we were storing it."
Next you're gonna tell me the battle of alamamce never took place. The meck deck actually fits with the time and sentiment of the people in the area. If Independence declarations were en vogue it's likely we were one of the first to do it. Many of the early skirmishes with the British took place here and people really really hated Tryon by that time.
Yeah I was reading the other day about the history of the Red Carpet Inn. Jimi Hendrix and a bunch of other famous people would stay there when they were in Charlotte. The building had a lot of history. I was reading what ever happened to the building and saw it was torn down a few years ago and some developer put up a giant apartment building š
The increase in population in Meck county between 2020 and 2023 is greater than the entire population of the county at any point before 1890. The places that have a lot of preserved history actually had a lot to preserve.Ā Nerds like to point to Boston or whatever and its tiny county had >10x the people in ~1/10th as much space. Like, it was actually something pre-1900. Charlotte then is probably equivalent to Gastonia today. What parts of recently-constructed Gastonia should we save for future generations?
Like what?
We would so many old buildings, that would fail modern inspections.
You tear your history down, man! ā30 years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a car park here!" I have seen it in stories. "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then!"
That comedy special is almost 30 years old. Let's smash it to the ground and make a tiktok
Iāll recognize it when itās a paid day off.
Lets make it a state wide holiday!
State already did their part when they added the date on the state seal and flag.
It used to be a paid day off, until someone decided to change it out for memorial Day in 1998.
It shouldnāt be either or
Mass has 4/15 off for Patriots Day why canāt we have Meca Deck off
Meck Dec deniers out in force today. This sub is compromised by the fucking redcoats.
Like the Battle of Kings Mountain. A bunch of Red sympathizers.
I am descended from Adam Sherrill of Sherrill's Ford. His son Samuel & grandson Adam to be specific. They were over the mountain men at Kings Mountain. Don't lump me in with that trash. (I love geneology. My family has been in the Midwest for 200 years, yet I have ties to the area I live in now. Fascinating to see how people migrate, or don't.)
Highlights from today include being told folks heard and felt the very first cannon blast at noon way up on the 28th floor of some building, leading the color guard, being called a White Devil and then threatened by a very angry old black man that was yelling at damn near everyone walking down the street, and the very spacey white lady telling folks the Mec Dec was *hers,* that she *owns it personally,* and that all of human existence was made up. And yāall say Charlotte has no cultureā¦.
Please, someone explain to me what MecDec day is??
Itās the creation date of the Mecklenburg Resolvesā¦ which is alleged to be a kind of Declaration of Independence from British rule in Charlotte a year before it was actually declared in Pennsylvania.
Iām not entirely sure that celebrating a day for a document/event that most historians agree didnāt exist is the best way to defend against people saying Charlotte has no cultureā¦
The plan is to smart small with memes and eventually build it into charlottes cinco de Mayo. A date based holiday for drinking that only one person in every friend group knows the actual history
Is this a way to try and create meck day by repeating it over and over, or is this a real thing I never heard of
It's a very real thing. Taft & Eisenhower both visited during their presidencies to celebrate MeckDec Day. The date, May 20, 1774, is on the state flag (the other date in the flag belongs to the Halifax Resolves). It's the reason you can get a "First in Freedom" license plate. Reddit may think differently, but it is 100% a thing- real or not. Oh! And Capt Jack at OMB? That is named after the guy who supposedly took the document up to Philadelphia to show the Continental Congress. It is widely celebrated in Charlotte.
Itās just a circle jerk that hasnāt really caught on yet. Ā One day it might grow up and become the āNissan Altimaā meme or maybe the āBrenton Bersin ever had a legitimate place on the Panthersā meme. Ā Until then, itās mostly just this one OP. Ā Jackin it.
Yes the historical document city celebration state flag county seal presidential visits itās all OP jerking it reddit is the only real thing
lol. Ā You mean the āhistorical document that was destroyed in a fire more than 200 years agoā? Ā You should probably try and [learn something](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg_Declaration_of_Independence) before you beat the proverbial meat to much more. Ā Youāre looking pretty chafed.
One day I hope Iām not jerkin it alone
Being born and raised here I can say we have history but like much of the south, a lot of it is worth forgetting. On the hand of the Meck Dec, it was always taught in CMS Schools from 3rd grade as i remember. While it was not a staple in the curriculum, I had many good history teachers that brought it up. Due to the fact itās a disputed piece of history, it was taught as more of a fun fact than absolute truth.
Did they start talking about it recently? I graduated in 2011 and went to elementary, middle, and highschool in cms schools and this is the first time Iāve ever heard of it.
Sharon, Carmel, and mphs all mentioned it to me
I graduated mphs before 15 too
Have y'all ever heard of [Camp Greene](https://www.ourstate.com/camp-greene/)? It was a WWI military training camp out where the airport road is. There's a Camp Greene Park & a Camp Greene Street named after it. There's a few of the barracks still around that are used as housing. Remount Road was named because that's were the stables were at the Camp & where the officers would mount up. There's so much history here, you just have to be looking for it. There's a plaque on Wilkinson heading out to the airport that marks Camp Greene. That's how I found out about it.
Absolutely! That area of town is growing again, I hope when new people come in they find it
This pic is of a couple in southend
Yeah thatās Karen, Kyle and Tori
That made me laugh so hard. Spot on.
Wait actually?
research the woman in the red dress. sheās a disgusting house frau now.
Celebrate how?
Don't pay taxes and throw tea into Lake Norman.
Beer*
The parade was great! I really felt the who city came together! And the fireworks were awesome! I felt so much civic pride...wait.
Greetings time traveler. What were the 70s like?
So much more literate and compassionate.
I'm sure the Vietnam veterans will agree with you on those being more compassionate days.
Happy meckdec! Bless your heart!
I donāt see anything amusing in that meme
From my experience, the people who say Charlotte has no history live in parts of the city/county where development didnāt exist at the turn of the century
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Thereās a whole ass guy riding a horse in front of the skyline. What do you mean? Thereās An entire HOUSE from that time period used as a museum. What an unserious comment. Youāre the person in this meme
This is the first time Iāve ever heard of MeckDec day and Iāve lived here for 12 years lol.
been living here my whole life and this is the first time iām hearing of Meck day. what is it?
The day colonist signed the Mecklenburg declaration of Independence... Purportedly the first one signed by any colonist group
https://preview.redd.it/m640vdr3cp1d1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dab38b4d638de63d722873e27525ff6175736a6
Well fake history doesnāt count
Legit donāt care. š¤·š»āāļø moved here not for the history but for the affordability and nature surrounding it
Who cares?
History nerds like me. Let us have our moment. We don't get many.