By Boyd D. Cathey
November 3, 2025
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church.
Somehow the news that the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, would soon pass the one million mark in population did not surprise me. For the past half century the city, the largest in the Tar Heel State, has longingly looked to Atlanta as something of a model, actually hoping one day to surpass it in importance and influence commercially and financially...and to leave behind forever any semblance of its history and memories as a characteristically "Southern" city.