Monroe - North Carolina - 4K Downtown Drive

Saturday afternoon drive around Monroe, NC.
Filmed: June 2021
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Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population increased from 26,228 in 2000 to 32,797 in 2010. It is within the rapidly growing Charlotte metropolitan area. Monroe has a council-manager form of government.
Monroe was founded as a planned settlement. In 1843, the first Board of County Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly, selected an area in the center of the county as the county seat, and Monroe was incorporated that year. It was named for James Monroe, the country's fifth president. It became a trading center for the agricultural areas of the Piedmont region, which cultivated tobacco.
Monroe was home to the Starlite Speedway in the 1960s to 1970s. On May 13, 1966, the 1/2 mile dirt track hosted NASCAR's 'Independent 250.' Darel Dieringer won the race.
Since 1984, Ludwig drums and timpani have been manufactured in Monroe.
As part of the developing Charlotte metropolitan area, in the 21st century, Monroe has attracted new Hispanic residents. North Carolina has encouraged immigration to increase its labor pool.
The Malcolm K. Lee House, Monroe City Hall, Monroe Downtown Historic District, Monroe Residential Historic District, Piedmont Buggy Factory, John C. Sikes House, Union County Courthouse, United States Post Office, and Waxhaw-Weddington Roads Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Racial segregation established by a white-dominated state legislature after the end of the Reconstruction era, persisted for nearly a century into the 1960s. Following World War II, many local blacks and veterans, including Marine veteran Robert F. Williams, began to push to regain their constitutional rights after having served the United States and the cause of freedom during the war. This would come to be met with some resistance. During this time, the city had a population estimated at 12,000; the press reported an estimated 7,500 members of the Ku Klux Klan gathering in the city, many coming from South Carolina, being only 14 miles from the state border.
Williams was elected as president of the local chapter of the NAACP; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had been founded in the early 1900s. He began to work to integrate public facilities, starting with the library and the city's swimming pool, which both excluded blacks. He noted that not only did blacks pay taxes as citizens that supported operations of such facilities, but they had been built with federal funds during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In 1958 Williams hired Conrad Lynn, a civil rights attorney from New York City, to aid in defending two African-American boys, aged nine and seven. They had been convicted of "molestation" and sentenced to a reformatory until age 21 for kissing a white girl their age on the cheek. This became known as the Kissing Case. The former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the North Carolina governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States. After three months, the governor pardoned the boys.
During the civil rights movement years of the 1960s, there was rising in Ku Klux Klan white violence against the minority black community of Monroe. Williams began to advocate black armed self-defense. Groups known as the Deacons for Defense, were founded by other civil rights leaders in Louisiana and Mississippi.
The NAACP and the black community in Monroe provided a base for some of the Freedom Riders in 1961, who were trying to integrate interstate bus travel through southern states. They had illegally imposed segregation in such buses in the South, although interstate travel was protected under the federal constitution's provisions regulating interstate commerce. Mobs attacked pickets marching for the Freedom Riders at the county courthouse. That year, Williams was accused of kidnapping an elderly white couple, when he sheltered them in his house during an explosive situation of high racial tension.

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[@ireece]

Wow one of my favorite North Carolina cites

[@0xygenMoron]

Damn, thats good to hear

[@solidsnake8331]

What is there to do here??

[@ireece]

Nothing there really

[@apollocarroblox2864]

monroe has a lot of history, good job

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Thanks.

[@silverhawk24]

Great video North Carolina Mike enjoyed the video man that Honda Accord you drive is pretty great have you ever driven it through snow

[@virtualtrip4K]

nice tour😋👍

[@glennpham2763]

Monroe is experiencing a rebirth.

[@masseyfamilypride3786]

This is my hometown n still live here . Living cost for rent is high constantly shortages in store for food cops are insane multiple gang issues an or shootings or breaks in as in everywhere. Some schools great have better football teams then schools lol but everywhere is hard right now that's to be expected the over all bueaty in some of the parks the trails n historical district is great

[@blueb277]

Is it still like that … I’m suppose to be moved there but if it’s like that my ass can stay in nyc lol

[@masseyfamilypride3786]

It's is high to live here their are some great schools Monroe high n middle naw hell naw traffice going to Charlotte always n in Charlotte Monroe eh not so much I mean it sucks here

[@rainbowunicornprincessandt7796]

I'm trying to decide where to move to. Somewhere that is more suburb. Not too far out in the sticks but not directly In Charlotte. The school system is also important. What is the cost of living in Monroe? Thanks for the tour.

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Monroe is one of the more affordable cities in the Charlotte area since it’s a little further out. I’ve heard good things about the schools in Union, Cabarrus, and York County (SC) but you might want to do further research on there as it can vary depending exactly on where you live in the county.

[@jaydrives19]

can you do a full real-time video of driving up i95 in North and South Carolina?

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Probably not likely. I really dislike I-95 through the Carolinas.

[@Redeyeevilmunci]

Index15 had an idea to make #Ultimate driving Monroe

[@qwertyzyz]

What's car do you own?

[@MileageMikeTravels]

honda for most of these.

[@stephaniemandarin2]

Honda is the best

[@helpmereach100subsbytheendof24]

This city is in Roblox Ultimate driving and its the same in real life.

[@stephaniemandarin2]

Now the rent is expensive

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Really? In Monroe?

[@jerrydavis3548]

Monroe a suburb of charlotte