SCOTT SYFERT: In late May of 1775, 26 local Scots-Irish Presbyterian militia ... signed a local declaration of independence for Mecklenburg County. SYFERT: And they say, we are the first people.

Importantly, the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was a focal point for Irish involvement in local affairs. Of the 56 signatories, nine were Irish. Signatories George Taylor and ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was ... SCOTT SYFERT: In late May of 1775, 26 local Scots-Irish Presbyterian militia leaders are meeting ...

From centuries-old museums to riverside parks and festivals, here are five things to do in this living colonial town just ...

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence — or "Meck Dec," as ... "In late May of 1775, 26 local Scots-Irish Presbyterian militia leaders are meeting in the log courthouse in what is now ...

During the great migration from Scotland in the early 1600s the first members of the Vans family from Barnbarroch in ...

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has launched the first in a series of events marking the upcoming 250th anniversary of the ...

From today (Thursday 29 May) copies from three centuries of the historic Belfast title will become accessible to the public ...

This idea of destroying a nation to reinvent it in a dear leader’s (and his cronies’) image is not new. Many megalomaniac, ...