Hornets' Nest: The Story of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County by Blythe, Legette and Charles R. Brockmann - 1961

(Charlotte, NC): For Public Library and Mecklenburg County By McNally of Charlotte, 1961. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 511 pages, index. Appendix with a helpful calendar of history. The book begins with a helpful history of the founders who labored to subdue a wilderness. It continues with a fascinating picture of the social and cultural life. It includes the early county fairs, the education from the colonial period to the early 20th century, business and finance, the churches, and the ethic of the people. A near fine copy with faint stain along bottom edge of upper board, bound in blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black and gilt, pictorial endpapers, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges.