Pottstown
As cities, suburbs, and exurbs grow, many smaller communities disappear. Fortunately, in some cases, residents and descendants of those communities work together to keep those communities alive. Such is the case of Pottstown in Northern Mecklenburg County. Pottstown is a historic African American community located within Huntersville. Emancipated blacks founded the community and would later name it after Ortho Potts. Potts was a brick mason who came from Asheville. In the years following the Civil War, many African Americans would settle in Pottstown - many were sharecroppers, tenant farmers, household servants, or worked as janitors or kitchen help for local businesses. Torrence-Lytle High School: The original 1937 Torrence-Lytle High School building. Opened in 1937 as the Huntersville Colored High School during the height of the Jim Crow South, Torrence-Lytle High School was the first public high school for Black students in northern Mecklenburg County. I...
