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The Carillon Tower is a 394-foot-tall (120 m) high-rise in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. [1] The building was completed in 1991 and it has 24 floors. The top of the high-rise contains a copper-roofed, Gothic central spire shaped like a bell tower, which rises 300 feet (91 m) from the base of the building.
Thomas Polk Park is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and comprises the west quadrant of Independence Square, at the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets.Named for Thomas Polk, a founding father of Charlotte and was among the residents and officials of Mecklenburg County who drafted and adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves.
Cascade Falls, also called "The Cascades", is a waterfall located at E. B. Jeffress Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, ...
Just over 40,000 people visited the park last year, making North Cascades one of the least visited national parks in the country, according to the latest National Park Service data. However, Oates ...
Looking Glass Falls is one of the most popular and easily accessible waterfalls in North Carolina. The waterfalls of North Carolina, U.S., are a prominent feature of the geography of the Piedmont and mountain regions of the state, as well as a major focus of tourism and outdoor recreation.
Carowinds, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States: Coordinates: Owner: Six Flags: Opened: 1982 () Previous names: Ocean Island (1982–1988) Riptide Reef (1989–1996) WaterWorks (1997–2005) Boomerang Bay (2006–2015) Operating season: May through September: Area
Charlotte (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t / ⓘ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, [10] making Charlotte the 15th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida.
[4] [5] Additional land acquisitions in the 1970s added to the park the Lower Cascades, a spectacular 40-foot (12 m) waterfall, and the Tory's Den, a rock outcropping rumored to have served as a hideout for British Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. Another large land purchase in 2000 added Flat Shoals Mountain, a smaller summit ...