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Learn about the history, geography, demographics, and culture of Mecklenburg County, the second-most populous county in North Carolina and the first to surpass one million residents. The county is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of the United Kingdom, and its seat is Charlotte, the state's largest city.
The county attorney’s office, with 10 employees, averages $134,000. The manager’s office, with 57 employees, averages $104,000. The office of information and technology, with 168 employees ...
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is the public library system of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. It has 20 locations, a history of racial integration, and a variety of services and collections for all ages.
CMS is the public school system for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with over 147,000 students and 184 schools. It is known for its magnet schools, integration efforts, and landmark Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
More Mecklenburg residents are getting access to health care, but the county is struggling to address maternal mortality and a mental health crisis, county public health officials say.
Built by enslaved men and women, Mecklenburg County’s oldest home will undergo final restoration work thanks to a six-figure federal grant, Charlotte Museum of History officials said this week ...
Find out the names, capacities, regions and histories of the state prisons in North Carolina. Learn about the renamed and closed prisons and their former names associated with racism or slavery.
CMPD is the largest police department between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia, covering an area of 438 square miles and a population of over one million. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of Charlotte City Police and Mecklenburg County Rural Police, and has faced several controversies over police shootings of civilians.