Edmund Fanning

Historical marker location:

122 S Churton St, Hillsborough, North Carolina

( Marker is on South Churton Street (Business U.S. 70) just north of East Margaret Lane, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2014

1737 - 1818.

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