Step into the shoes of the Queen City’s earliest residents on a walking tour departing from Independence Square, the highest point in Uptown Charlotte, and the rumoured cradle of American liberty. Just download the smartphone app and begin your self-guided journey whenever you wish.
Visit the Old Settlers Cemetery, where you’ll find the graves of American Revolutionary War heroes, and the predecessors of US Presidents. See where the original Branch Mint was and where it was later moved, brick by painstaking brick.
Discover several churches, including both St. Peter’s Catholic Church and St Peter’s Episcopal Church, and the former First Baptist Church, which is now the McGlohon Theatre. Along the way, pass the building where a dozen businessmen leaped to their deaths, the Dunhill Hotel.

Learn about the North Carolina drink of Cheerwine and which Hunger Games scenes were filmed in the Green Park, among other interesting facts. By the time you reach Romare Bearden Park, where the tour ends, you’ll have a much greater appreciation for the city, its history, and its cultural corners.