Self-Guided Walking Tours
Plaza Midwood Historic District
Stroll the Plaza Midwood Historic District off Central Avenue on Charlotte’s east side.
West End/JCSU
Take a self-guided walk in the West Trade Street / Beatties Ford Road corridor, historic heart of African American Charlotte.
Elizabeth Neighborhood
Explore Elizabeth, one of Charlotte’s earliest streetcar suburbs.
Plaza Midwood’s “Downtown”
Wander two square blocks of quirky small businesses in Plaza Midwood’s “downtown.”
Central Avenue
History, art, food, fun! Take a self-guided stroll along the main shopping street of Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood and Elizabeth neighborhoods.
See how historic textile mill villages became Dilworth, Streetcar Suburb
Walk along Olmsted-planned avenues in Dilworth’s historic district.
Among new South End apartments, discover century-old homes & mills.
See homes of Charlotte’s early-20th-century elite along Myers Park’s tree-shaded, winding avenues.
