Charlotte
a city and county-seat of Mecklenburg co., N. C., on Sugar creek, and the Southern, the Seaboard Air Line, and several other railroads, 226 miles N. E. of Atlanta, Ga. It is the trade center of Mecklenburg and surrounding counties, and also the center of the Southern cotton mill industry, having more than 300 mills within a radius of 100 miles; is the seat of Biddle University, and a military institute; has several churches, parks, opera houses, public library, National banks, and weekly newspapers. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was adopted here in 1775, and the city was occupied by the British in 1780. Pop. (1910) 34,014; (1920) 46,338.