Charlotte Mint
Site, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Site
- Where
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
CHARLOTTE MINT
The Confederacy seized the Charlotte Mint in May 1861 and kept coining until October 1861. For the rest of the war the building served as a hospital and military office space.
Then
The Confederacy seized the Charlotte Mint in May 1861 and kept coining until October 1861.
It was then a hospital and military office space for the rest of the war.
Now
Museum
The building was moved from West Trade Street to the Eastover neighborhood and opened in 1936 as the Mint Museum of Art.
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX run through Charlotte today.
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