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Posted on: March 24, 2023

Dr. Thomas Craven

Dr. Tom Craven

Dr. Thomas Craven was a veteran of both World Wars, serving in the first World War as a Captain in the Medical Corps and attaining the rank of Colonel in the second war. He served as Huntersville’s mayor for seven terms and later as a commission...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 22, 2023

John Frank Lytle

John Frank Lytle

John Frank Lytle was born into slavery but became a prominent farmer and businessman. His farm grew cotton and corn and he owned a great deal of land. Lytle was key in developing educational opportunities for African American children and in 1926 built th...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Benny Reeder

Benny Reeder

Benny Reeder is a self-taught welder and artist. His whimsical yard art has been a fixture outside of his home on Gilead Road since he began creating art out of scrap metal in the early 1990s. Utilizing materials such as old shopping carts, golf clubs, di...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 17, 2023

David Harris Gant

David Harris Gant

David Harris “Harry” Gant grew up working with his family at their sawmill. After serving in the US Navy during World War II, he began his brick-laying career. Gant started his own masonry company, McCord & Gant, with business partner and friend, Dave...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 15, 2023

William "Bill" Fite Auten

William Fite Auten

William "Bill" Fite Auten served as Huntersville's Postmaster for 20 years. Known for his extravagant Christmas light display at his home on Hillcrest Drive, he was also a faithful supporter of the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry. 

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 14, 2023

Scoutmaster Larry Banks

Scoutmaster Larry Banks

Larry Banks has served as Scoutmaster of Troop 19, based at Huntersville Presbyterian Church, since 1988. During his 34-year tenure, the Troop has registered more than 525 Scouts, with 165 having earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Scoutmaster Banks has grown...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 13, 2023

Metrolina Greenhouses

Metrolina Greenhouses

Metrolina Greenhouses has been part of Huntersville's "landscape" for more than 50 years. Founded by Tom and Vickie VanWingerden who immigrated from the Netherlands in 1971, their initial 20,000-square-foot rented greenhouse has flourished into ...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 8, 2023

Rachel Miller Bellew

Rachel Miller Bellew

Rachel Miller Bellew was Huntersville’s first female Town Board Commissioner when elected in 1973. She served on the Sanitation Committee and volunteered as a school crossing guard. 

150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 7, 2023

Torrence-Lytle School

Torrence Lytle School

Torrence-Lytle School opened in 1937 and represented the first opportunity for African American students, elementary through high school, to attend a public school in the region where they lived. It had seven classrooms and 181 pupils. The school&rsqu...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 6, 2023

Pottstown Community

Pottstown Art Wall

The Pottstown Community is the earliest African American neighborhood in Huntersville. Located southeast of the Town’s center, the community began as a sparsely settled area of small farms and workers’ dwellings, with churches marking the general boundari...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 4, 2023

Levera Elaine Pearson Wynn

Wynn-Levera

Levera Pearson Wynn worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others. In the 1970s, she went door to door in the Pottstown community trying to get residents to support a voluntary annexation into Huntersville so residents could receive Town services. Wynn...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 3, 2023

Hopewell Presbyterian Church Stone Walls

Hopewell Presbyterian Church Stone Wall

In 1928, NCDOT solicited churches for their stone walls so the stone could be crushed and used to surface local roads. Many churchyards had stone wall boundaries to define the sacred area and keep out livestock. Hopewell Presbyterian Church had stones aro...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: March 2, 2023

Otho James Potts

Otha James Potts Home

Otha James Potts owned a substantial amount of land around and behind Church Street. Although initially farmland, Potts sold parcels for homes. Employed by a construction company in Charlotte, he used scrap materials from commercial construction sites to ...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 27, 2023

Leroy Roscoe Wynn

Leroy Wynn

Leroy Roscoe Wynn was an agriculture and horticulture teacher at multiple Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, including Torrence-Lytle School where he taught for 18 years. In 39 years of teaching, Wynn never took a sick day. He was the first African American e...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 22, 2023

Caldwell Rosenwald School

Caldwell Rosenwald School

Caldwell Rosenwald School, 15435 NC Hwy73, was constructed in 1925 to serve African American children in the Lemley community of North Mecklenburg County. The cost of construction was $5,200; of that, $1,100 was paid by the Rosenwald Fund, $3,500 by the p...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 21, 2023

Richard Dalrymple

Richard Dalrymple

Richard Dalrymple was a connoisseur of jazz. At the urging of his barber, David Beatty of Beatty’s Barber Shop in Huntersville, Dalrymple met the owner of radio station WHIP 1350, who put him on the air. Dalrymple’s Jazz Party program was well-known as th...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 20, 2023

Bethesda Schoolhouse

Bethesda Schoolhouse

Bethesda Schoolhouse, circa 1898, is the oldest surviving school building for African Americans in Mecklenburg County. Officially designated as the Bethesda Colored School of Mallard Creek Township, School District # 3, it served the African American comm...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 17, 2023

William James Colson Sr. - Colson's Barber Shop

William James Colson Sr.

William James Colson Sr. owned and operated Colson's Barber Shop, a two-chair, 900-square-foot shop on Gilead Road, for 42 years. When he opened his shop in 1966, haircuts were only 75 cents. Colson became a barber after losing his left leg in a hunting a...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 16, 2023

Huntersville School #2 - The Little School

Dellwood Center

Huntersville School #2, located at 508 Dellwood Drive, is one of six surviving Rosenwald schools in Mecklenburg County. Also known as the “Little School,” this facility was designated a historical landmark in 2022. Rosenwald Schools played a key role in e...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 15, 2023

Betty Jane Caldwell

Betty Jane Caldwell's Yearbook Photo

Betty Jane (BeeJay) Caldwell is an author, community activist, and advocate of Huntersville’s Pottstown Community. Through her docent reenactments at local historical sites and community presentations, Caldwell shares her knowledge and passion for her com...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: February 4, 2023

Juanita Pettice White

Juanita Pettice White

Juanita Pettice White taught French and English at the historic Torrence-Lytle High School in Huntersville during the 1960s, where she also served as a faculty advisor for the yearbook committee and the school paper, the "Torrence-Lytle Gazette."...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 31, 2023

Isaac Torrence Graham

Isaac Torrence Graham

Isaac Torrence Graham was the first and only principal of Torrence-Lytle High School (1937-1966) in Huntersville. After Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools integrated its schools, Graham became the assistant principal of North Mecklenburg High School.

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Dr. Hillis Ledbetter Seay

Dr. Hillis Ledbetter Seay

Dr. Hillis Ledbetter Seay was a local physician who practiced medicine in the Huntersville area for more than 50 years. He did extensive clinical research in the treatment of tuberculosis and served as superintendent of the Mecklenburg Tubercular Sanitori...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 24, 2023

William Amos Hough, Jr.

William Amos H, Jr.

William Amos Hough, Jr., a lifelong educator, served as principal of North Mecklenburg High School from 1955 to 1974. The NC Association of Educators named him Principal of the Year in 1970 and he was one of the first inductees into the school’s Hall of F...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 20, 2023

James Hoyt Wilhelm

Hoyt Wilhelm

James Hoyt Wilhelm was one of 11 children born to tenant farmers in Huntersville and began his baseball career in the Lake Norman area. Wilhelm served in the US Army during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart. Nicknamed “Old Sarge&...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 19, 2023

Richard Barry

Richard Barry Historical Marker

Richard Barry was a tanner, legislator, and one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. He was co-founder of Hopewell Presbyterian Church and is buried in the church’s cemetery. Barry is also remembered for recovering Gene...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 12, 2023

Dwight Shaw Cross Jr.

Dwight Shaw Cross, Jr

Dwight Shaw Cross Jr. returned home after serving as a pilot in the Air Force and went to work for his dad at Cross Chevrolet, which he later owned. He served on the Huntersville Community Council, coached Little League, and was elected to the Huntersvill...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 11, 2023

Ryder Michael Ryan

Ryder Ryan

Ryder Michael Ryan, a professional baseball pitcher, was born in Huntersville and attended North Mecklenburg High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ryan won a silver medal with Team USA at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, making fou...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 10, 2023

Chief John Albert Rape

Chief John Albert Rape

Huntersville Police Chief John Albert Rape was killed in the line of duty while questioning a suspect on a burglary call during the early morning hours of January 1, 1938. His murder remains unsolved. Rape was 34 years old.

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 6, 2023

Andrea Stinson

Andrea Stinson

Andrea Stinson attended North Mecklenburg High School and was selected as Female Player of the Year for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in 1986-87. She was often seen participating in open gym at the David B. Waymer Recreation Center. ...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 5, 2023

General William Lee Davidson

General William Lee Davidson

General William Lee Davidson was a Revolutionary War officer who died protecting Cowan’s Ford from an enemy crossing. Although the battle was lost, the outnumbered army’s efforts bought the patriots invaluable time later in the war. He...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 4, 2023

Margaret "Belle" Banks

Margaret Belle Banks

Margaret “Belle” Banks was Chairman of the Board for Central Piedmont Community College during the organizational period leading to the establishment of the North Campus in Huntersville. She served for 12 years as a commissioner on the...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 1, 2023

Spencer Allen Irvin

Spencer Allen Irvin

Spencer Allen Irvin served the Huntersville community as Fire Chief for 39 years. He served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict and received a Purple Heart. Irvin was the owner of Irvins Body Shop and enjoyed building fire trucks for local f...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places
Posted on: January 1, 2023

William LeGette Blythe

William LeGette Blythe

William LeGette Blythe made his name as one of the most respected journalists and versatile authors of Mecklenburg County. He worked for The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer as a journalist before starting to write his own award-winning books.?Bl...

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150 Anniversary - Notable Names & Places

News Flash

News Flash

Posted on: February 27, 2023

Top Deck Car & Truck Show

Saturday, March 25, 2023moved to Sunday, March 26th9 am.- Noon now 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Register Here

Start your engines and cruise into this year's Downtown Huntersville Top Deck Car & Truck Show, presented by F...

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Additional Info... Home - Parks
Posted on: January 19, 2023

A Sesquicentennial Celebration 150 years in the making!

Guided by a group of volunteers, the Anniversary Committee has three subcommittees leading the charge for a year-long celebration: Events, History and Public Relations.

We look forward to celebrating with you throughout 2023!

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News Flash

Posted on: February 27, 2023

CALEA Law Enforcement Accreditation Public Comment Portal

The Huntersville Police Department participates in the CALEA Law Enforcement Accreditation process. As a part of this process, we provide an opportunity for public feedback via the CALEA Portal located here:  http://cimrs2.calea.org/562. The purp...

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News Flash

Posted on: March 17, 2023

Public Comment Period for Regional Transportation Topics

The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) has opened a 30-day public comment period to obtain public input on the 2024-2033 Draft Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), amendments to the 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (...

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Home - Town News
Posted on: March 3, 2023

HPD Chief Bence Hoyle to Retire After 37 Years of Law Enforcement Service

Bence Hoyle

“As you know I am reluctant to retire, but I am sure, after 37 years, it is time.” Chief Bence Hoyle

Huntersville Town Manager Anthony Roberts announced today that Police Chief Bence Hoyle will retire on June 1, 2023, from the Huntersville Police Departmen...

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Posted on: February 15, 2023

Mayors' Fitness Challenge 2023

Registration is open for the 2023 Mayors’ Fitness Challenge – a friendly and healthy fitness competition between the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, and Davidson.

Residents of the three towns will compete in a six-week fitness challen...

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Home - Town News
Posted on: January 31, 2023

Watersheds & Impervious Areas Video

Have you ever wondered about watershed protection or impervious limits? Approximately 1/2 of Huntersville's property owners are affected by these terms. This video is for you! (18) WATERSHED PROTECTION 1 - YouTube 

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Posted on: August 15, 2022

2022 Progress Report on Hazard Mitigation Plan Implementation

To maintain the Community Rating System (CRS) status within the National Flood Insurance Program, the Town of Huntersville is required to provide an annual progress report on the implementation of each of the mitigation actions the town proposed in the Me...

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