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8261
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In the 1980s, trafficking in crack cocaine and other criminal activities plagued Charlotte's Wilmore neighborhood. The tight-knit residents knew they had to act. In the 1990s, plans for a neighborhood community center took shape. A local nonprofit agency called Charlotte Green approached the residents with the idea of developing a community garden, where neighbors could cultivate vegetables, herbs, flowers, and, most importantly, strong bonds that would help bring the neighborhood back to what it once was. In 2006, there are seven community gardens in Charlotte, and the Wilmore Community Garden, started in 1991, is still growing strong. The project cultivates more than vegetables as members of the older generation share their oral histories with their younger neighbors.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006, p118-120, 122, 123, il Periodical Website
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7784
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The Dovetail Garden, located in Charlotte's historic Fourth Ward neighborhood, is an eclectic garden, with roses, collard greens, tulips, and tomatoes growing side by side. The Fourth Ward is divided between residents of Edwin Towers, a Charlotte Housing Authority high-rise where low-income, mostly elderly and mostly African Americans live, and the affluent, mostly white residents who make up the rest of the ward's population. These two groups rarely interacted. Tomlin discusses how this unique 100-foot-wide circular garden brought a closer connection with people in the neighborhood.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 11, Apr 2006, p156-158, 160, il Periodical Website
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31435
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Near the intersection of Park and Woodlawn, a group of established neighborhoods with modest homes has suddenly become cool, creating a small-scale identity crisis that has residents wondering: What do we call ourselves?
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1541
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The Historic Resources Committee of the American Institute of Architects' North Carolina chapter recently developed proposals for preserving and revitalizing the buildings and neighborhoods of the South Tryon St./South Boulevard area of Uptown Charlotte.
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North Carolina Architecture (NoCar NA 730 N8 N67x), Vol. 40 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 1992, p20-22, il