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Latta Place: 'All people to feel welcome' at former plantation where 65 were enslaved

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Latta Place Visitor Center exterior rendering / Credit: Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation March 21. Mecklenburg County unveiled plans for Latta Place that include a new interpretive trail, a new visitor center and updates to the plantation farmstead that will uncover the “entangled stories of the people and cultures” who lived there. That includes enslaved people, Indigenous people, tenant farmers, artisans and historic landowners. The coun…

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County unveils design Latta Place, shoots for 2026 reopening

Mecklenburg County has unveiled a new plan for Latta Place, a former slave plantation, that will honor the enslaved people who lived and worked there.The $11.2 million plan,18 months in the making, was made public late Thursday at a community meeting at the North County Regional Library in Huntersville. Among other amenities, the plan calls for a new visitors center and an “interpretive trail” that would include two “reflection spaces” to honor …

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