Meck Dec Day
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, May 20, 2022 12pm
Location
Corner of Trade and Tryon
Details
This year the annual commemoration will return to The Square at Trade and Tryon, on Friday, May 20th, 2022, at noon.
This traditional celebration has hosted four former presidents, military generals, and many more dignitaries.
The celebration will include:
- Military and colonial reenactors
- Historic readings
- Horses
- Military parades
- Cannon firing
- More
The Mecklenburg Declaration will be read from a re-enactor, on the steps of a reproduction of the original Court House. You can expect a series of toasts, quoted from the 1825 celebration. The proper response to each is, “Huzzah!”
Following the toasts there will be a volley of musket and cannon fire. Then, the crowd parades down the street to Old Settler’s Cemetery, where there will be a musket salute and a wreath will be placed on the grave of Thomas Polk, the founder of Charlotte.
This is a free celebration. Check for updates on the Facebook event.