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From: "Donna Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [NCMECKLE] Mecklenburg County Convict Camp
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:12:59 -0500


Glen,

Was your grandfather Collin Campbell King? If so, I would love to talk
Hipp-King family with you!

There was a small branch of the State Prison on Mount Holly-Huntersville
Road at Huntersville - "Mecklenburg Correctional Center " - that was open
for many decades. It began as a county prison, and was taken over by the
state in 1931, when the state began to use prisoners to build roads
throughout the state. The prison was closed in January 1999 as the state
began to consolidate prisoners into larger facilities at fewer locations.
For the last several years, the prisoners were assigned the job of picking
up litter along the interstate highways in and around Charlotte. Since the
prison closed, the roads are a mess (one of my pet peeves.)

Donna J. Johnson
Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina, USA
my url: <http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/1174>;


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Jordan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: [NCMECKLE] Mecklenburg County Convict Camp


> OK, all you Mecklenburg County history buffs out there. Here's a little
trivia quiz for you. In February, 1920, at the time of his death, my
grandfather, C.C. KING, was superintendent of a convict camp in Mecklenburg
County. Since he lived in the Long Creek community, I assume that the
prison camp was somewhere near there. Derita happened to be not too far
away. Maybe around there? Also, maybe Huntersville (which according to Joe
Jacobs was once known as Deweese). As I recall from the 32 years that I
lived in the Charlotte/Statesville areas, there was, and may still be, a
prison camp in or around Huntersville. Does anyone know the name of that
camp? Was it something as simple as 'Huntersville Prison Camp'? Any other
suggestion re prison camps in or around the Long Creek area?
>
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