Every handwritten letter and folded-up document found here just might lead to a bigger story.
Take some time to dust off the old photo albums and boxes in the attic, and you might just find out that you had a distant relative who signed the Mecklenburg Declaration — North Carolina’s version of the Declaration of Independence — or who migrated to the western part of this state when it was still wild and unsettled. Every handwritten letter and folded-up document found here just might lead to a bigger story.