O.C. Bruton Store

Historical marker location:

115 North Main Street, Mount Gilead, North Carolina

( Marker is on North Main Street north of East Allenton Street (North Carolina Highway 731), on the left when traveling north.)

Later Peidmont Grocery & Market. c. 1910.

The state's largest city, Charlotte, was named after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of England.