Independence Square

Dead-​center Charlotte, where Trade Street meets Tryon Street. Where North meets South and East meets West. Independence Square is the «Uptown» of Uptown Charlotte. It is the very center, the core of the Queen City.
The Sculpture on each of the four corners are dedicated to Transportation, Future, Commerce and Industry. Try and see if you can recognize the face of the banker in Commerce — it’s supposedly retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, but I don’t see it.
It’s worth a stop if you’re exploring Charlotte.

This is one of Charlotte’s most idiosyncratic spots. Charlotteans claim that Mecklenburg county declared independence from Britain in 1775, one year before them Yanks at the Continental Congress stole the idea. This original and 100% not-​made-​up declaration was lost in a house fire 25 years later. Honest.
And we commemorate this with The Sculptures at Independence Square, a quartet of vaguely bigoted statues, one of which bares its magnificent bosom to the bustling city below. I cannot explain how her breasts are related to the rampant historical revisionism capitalizing on the success of the American Revolution, but it does make me smile to see such a statue thrust upon our conservative city.