This site includes a regional history museum displaying
artifacts from Charlotte, North Carolina, and the oldest house
in Mecklenburg County, the 1774 Hezekiah Alexander Homesite.The
Charlotte Museum of History and Hezekiah Alexander Homesite
comprise multiple venues on an eight-acre wooded campus in east
Charlotte. The oldest structure, and the reason for the museum’s
location, is the Hezekiah Alexander Homesite, a 5,000- square
foot rock house. The Hezekiah Alexander House is the oldest
surviving house in Mecklenburg County. Listed on the National
Register for Historic Places, it was built circa 1774 and still
stands on its original site. The house is accompanied by a
reproduction log kitchen and reconstructed two-story
springhouse. An intensive exhibits program had produced three
galleries taking the Charlotte-Mecklenburg story from 18th to
the 20th century. A changing exhibit space was created on the
second floor. Grand Opening was held on October 24, 1999.