Jun. 3 The iconic Queen Charlotte statue has returned to Charlotte Douglas International Airport though it won't be unveiled until 2025. The statue was returned to the airport after "a makeover" at Carolina Bronze in Seagrove, N.C. It will be enclosed in a box until construction on the terminal lobby expansion is completed. The $600 million terminal lobby expansion project is the most .
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If you ve missed the bronze statue of Queen Charlotte that once stood outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport parking deck or if you ve missed seeing her at all because you haven t traveled in the past year fear no more.
Queen Charlotte has returned!
But she s not ready to make an appearance again quite yet.
The airport said Queen Charlotte wintered at Carolina Bronze in Seagrove, North Carolina, for a makeover to remove some of the tarnishing that had built up over years of outdoor wear and turned her a bright green.
Welcome home, Queen Charlotte! Her Majesty returned to #CLTairport this morning after wintering at Carolina Bronze in Seagrove, N.C., for a makeover. She will be enclosed in a box until she makes her royal debut at the Terminal Lobby Expansion’s completion in 2025. #CLTRoyaltypic.twitter.com/VYu9QEHHYs CLT Airport (@CLTAirport) June 3, 2021
WILMINGTON – A Civil Rights icon that once called the Cape Fear home could soon be immortalized with a new statue in the heart of it.
The Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County is leading up the fundraising efforts for a life-size monument to Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native who was a member of the groundbreaking Greensboro Four sit-in movement in 1960 that served a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
This wouldn’t be the first time McNeil was honored in downtown Wilmington. In 2019, the city unveiled signs turning North Third Street into a commemorative way called Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil Way.