Commercial Building

Historical marker location:

28 Union St S, Concord, North Carolina

( Marker is on Union Street South just south of Cabarrus Avenue West (County Road 1002), on the right when traveling south.)

North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, in the early 1800s. The town of Charlotte was named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of England.