10/02/2026
🥾🇺🇸 Hiking Club | September Hike 🇺🇸 🥾
Our Hiking Club kicked off the year with a special adventure celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States!
Our first two hikes are part of the journey to earn the First in Freedom patch, with Cubs learning about the people and places that played a role in the founding of our country.
For our September hike, we visited three local historic sites with Mecklenburg County Historian Brandon Lunsford: Alexandriana Historic Site, Hopewell Presbyterian Church, and the area surrounding McGuire Nuclear Plant. At each stop, Brandon shared fascinating stories about the history of the site and its connection to our nation’s founding.
It was a great morning of hiking, history, and learning about the story right in our own backyard!