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HEPI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to preserving, restoring, enhancing, and sharing the original historic and park-like atmosphere of
Elmwood Pinewood and Settlers’ Cemeteries.

Whatever you want to call them. Orbs. Spirits. Ghosts. A trick of the light. People have been photographing them on thes...
10/14/2026

Whatever you want to call them. Orbs. Spirits. Ghosts. A trick of the light. People have been photographing them on these grounds for years, and we’ll let you be the judge.

Swipe through and decide for yourself.

Want to see for yourself in person? Next weekend, the Charlotte Area Paranormal Society (CAPS) is teaming up with our Voices From The Past: After Dark storytellers on October 23 & 24. Their team will be ghost-hunting right here in Elmwood, bringing professional equipment that lets you try to communicate with the spirits of the cemetery yourself.

With 173 years of history resting here, we figure a few of them might still be hanging around. Come find out.

🕯️ October 23 & 24 at Historic Elmwood Cemetery
🕯️ Reserve your Paranormal Experience at the link, more info there too

https://voicesfromthepastcharlotte.com

Ever caught something in a photo you couldn’t quite explain? Drop it in the comments, we want to see it.

Voices From The Past: After Dark is back for its third year, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: the true, darker stor...
10/09/2026

Voices From The Past: After Dark is back for its third year, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: the true, darker stories of Charlotte’s past, told after sunset on the 173-year-old grounds where so much of that history actually lived and ended.

We’re talking real murders, tragedies, cold cases, and long-buried secrets. The stories that don’t get told at our spring living history event because, honestly, they’re too dark for daylight. This is the other side of Charlotte, the one most people walk right past without ever knowing it’s there.

Third year, two nights only. If it’s been on your list, this is your reminder to lock it in.

🕯️ Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24
🕯️ 7pm to 12:30am
🕯️ Historic Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte NC
🕯️ Adults recommended, sensitive subject matter

Come hear the stories these grounds have been keeping.

Learn more and grab your tickets: https://voicesfromthepastcharlotte.com

Before he built one of Charlotte's longest-running manufacturing companies, Howard M. Wade stood at the front of a class...
10/01/2026

Before he built one of Charlotte's longest-running manufacturing companies, Howard M. Wade stood at the front of a classroom.

A Columbus, Georgia native and Emory graduate, he was a high school principal who taught Latin, Greek, and history. In 1901, a year after marrying Rosalie Tarver, he left teaching to start over in business.

In 1906, the Wades moved to Charlotte for opportunity and a gentler climate for Rosalie. At 30, Howard founded Wade Manufacturing Company. For more than seventy years, it crafted fine polished wood interiors for stores, banks, and churches across the South, with craftsmen he brought from Europe.

In 1911, the Wades became some of the first property owners in a new neighborhood called Myers Park. Howard designed their first Hermitage Road home himself, built by men from his own company.

Years later, he hired Philadelphia architect Charles Barton Keene, the same architect behind Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, to design a new home. Howard worked side by side with him on the smallest details and negotiated with the contractors himself. The Georgian Colonial mansion took nearly three years to build, with grounds by renowned landscape architect Earle S. Draper. It still stands today, essentially as it was built.

He also served as president of Charlotte Country Club for 25 years.

Howard retired in 1954. Two years later, Rosalie passed away. He stayed in their Hermitage Road home until his death in 1961.

A teacher who took a leap. A man who moved his family for the woman he loved. A builder who put his heart into every detail, from Charlotte's churches to the home he shared with Rosalie.

Next time you visit, stop by Plot D3 and remember Howard M. Wade. 🤍

Voices From The Past: After Dark returns to Historic Elmwood Cemetery for its third year. These are the true stories, th...
09/23/2026

Voices From The Past: After Dark returns to Historic Elmwood Cemetery for its third year. These are the true stories, the ones too dark to tell in the daylight. Real murders, tragedies, cold cases, and long-buried secrets pulled straight from Charlotte's past, told across 173-year-old grounds after the sun goes down.

This is the side of Charlotte's history you won't hear at our living history event in the spring. Every bit of it is true.

🕯️ Friday, October 23 & Saturday, October 24
🕯️ 7pm to 12:30am
🕯️ Historic Elmwood Cemetery
🕯️ Adults recommended, sensitive subject matter

Come hear the stories these grounds have been keeping.

Learn More: https://voicesfromthepastcharlotte.com

Some of the people who founded Charlotte have been buried in Uptown since the 1700s. Right now, 70 of their headstones a...
09/21/2026

Some of the people who founded Charlotte have been buried in Uptown since the 1700s. Right now, 70 of their headstones are sitting in storage, where they've been for the last 25 years. We have a chance to change that.

Settlers' Cemetery was formed in 1768, with gravesites dating back to 1776. Tucked into the heart of Uptown, it's one of the oldest pieces of Charlotte still standing and one of the most-loved green spaces in Center City. A major restoration in 1998 preserved so much of it, but 70 vandalized tombstones and markers were pulled, stored, and never reset.

Historic Elmwood Pinewood, Inc (HEPI) is leading phase 1 of a new effort: raising $350,000 to restore and reset those 70 stones and return them to their rightful place. future phases will repair existing stones, improve the landscaping, and bring back the Settlers' fountain that's been in storage since the 90s.

if Charlotte's history means something to you, here's how you can help save the stones:

💛 online: historicelmwoodpinewood.org
Donation Opportunities > Donation Overview > Settlers' Monument Reinstallation

💛 by check:
Historic Elmwood Pinewood, Inc
Attn: Allen Robertson, Chair
101 N. Tryon St., Suite 1900
Charlotte, NC 28246

Elmwood and Pinewood sit side by side today, but for over a century, a fence stood between them. Under segregation, Char...
08/30/2026

Elmwood and Pinewood sit side by side today, but for over a century, a fence stood between them. Under segregation, Charlotte's Black residents were laid to rest in Pinewood, with its own separate entrance off 9th Street. In 1968, Fred Alexander, Charlotte's first Black city council member since the 19th century, led the effort to take that fence down. In January 1969, a tie vote in City Council was broken by Mayor Stan Brookshire, and the fence came down the very next day.

A piece of it still stands at the eastern edge as a reminder. We invite you to visit, walk the grounds, and honor the lives and the history held here.

By 1853, Charlotte had outgrown Settlers' Cemetery, and Elmwood was born, a "rural-style" cemetery designed to flow with...
08/29/2026

By 1853, Charlotte had outgrown Settlers' Cemetery, and Elmwood was born, a "rural-style" cemetery designed to flow with the land, where early residents came to walk, picnic, and (true story) even race carriages.

More than 170 years later, it's still one of uptown's most beautiful green spaces: a Level I Accredited Arboretum full of remarkable trees, striking monuments, and the stories of Charlotteans who shaped this place, including Dr. Annie Alexander, the first female physician in the South.

Bring your walking shoes and a little curiosity.

📍 700 West 6th Street

Before the skyline, there was Settlers'. Tucked at 5th and Church, this is Charlotte's oldest burial ground, the town's ...
08/28/2026

Before the skyline, there was Settlers'. Tucked at 5th and Church, this is Charlotte's oldest burial ground, the town's original common cemetery, laid out beside the church where the earliest Charlotteans worshipped back in the 1700s.

Today it feels less like a cemetery and more like a pocket park: winding brick paths framed by uptown high-rises, with over 300 marked graves holding some of the very first names in our city's story.

Come take a quiet walk through the beginning of Charlotte.

📍 200 West 5th Street

Your next event deserves a backdrop nobody else has 🖤Picture it: 70+ acres of history, park-like grounds, monuments with...
08/14/2026

Your next event deserves a backdrop nobody else has 🖤

Picture it: 70+ acres of history, park-like grounds, monuments with stories, and the queen city skyline sitting right behind you. elmwood pinewood + settlers' cemeteries aren't just a piece of charlotte's past... they make for a genuinely one-of-a-kind venue for your next gathering.

Whether it's a community event, a photo-worthy celebration, or something a little unexpected, we've got the space (and the atmosphere) to make it unforgettable.

Every rental helps preserve and restore these historic grounds, so your good time gives back too.

Ready to plan something special? Drop us a message or email [email protected] to get started 🤍

📍 charlotte, nc

Plot B2 belongs to the Kennedy-Bearden family. And while their most famous descendant is buried elsewhere, the story tha...
07/31/2026

Plot B2 belongs to the Kennedy-Bearden family. And while their most famous descendant is buried elsewhere, the story that connects them to Charlotte is still alive all around the city today.

These were the grandparents of Romare Bearden, one of the most celebrated American artists of the 20th century and, in 1971, the first African American artist to have a solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Bearden was born in Charlotte in 1911, and the summers he spent here with the family resting in this plot became the raw material for the art that made him famous.

Charlotte has never forgotten that. Walk through Uptown today and his name is everywhere. His mosaic "Before Dawn" hangs wall-sized inside the Main Library at 6th and Tryon, built from memories of his childhood here. And just a few blocks from where he was born, Romare Bearden Park opened in 2013, a 5.4-acre green space designed around his collages, complete with gardens named for the women in his family whose real gardens once inspired his work.

The famous name lives on in parks and museums. But the family who shaped him rests right here.

Want to meet more of the people who rest here? Take our virtual cemetery tour on our website.

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700 W. 6th Street
Charlotte, NC
28202

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