The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 45, October 23, 2005, Article 11

MOVING STORY OF THE CHARLOTTE MINT

This news item was published on October 22: "Looking back
in history on this day in 1936, Charlotte's Mint Museum opened.
It was North Carolina's first art museum, and it already had a
fascinating history.

It was built 100 years earlier as the first branch of the United
States Mint. That is where coins were made from the output
of the Carolina gold rush.

In 1837, President Andrew Jackson appointed John Wheeler
Hill as the mint's first superintendent. Hill's salary was $2,000
per year.

The mint shut down during the Civil War but was used as a
Confederate headquarters and hospital. After the war it was
used as an assay office, until it closed for good in 1913.

The building was scheduled for demolition, but a citizens group
raised the money to move it. They had it dismantled brick by
brick on West Trade Street and relocated the building to its
current location on Randolph Road."

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[I didn't realize the Charlotte Mint building had been moved.
Has that happened with any other U.S Mint buildings? Have
any other Mints around the world been moved? -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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