Questions
from "A Griers Fork in the Road"
August 2003 - How many street lights will Griers Fork have
after Duke Power completes installation of our new lights?
June
2003 - How many houses are there in Griers Fork?
April
2003 - What are the mascots for Olympic High School, Kennedy Middle School, and Steele Creek Elementary School?
February
2003 - Four major new developments are expected to add about
8,000 new residences to southwest Mecklenburg County in the
next few years. What are their names?
December
2002 -Which local government provides or administers the
following services for Griers Fork residents....
Charlotte or Mecklenburg County?
a. Street maintenance
b. Garbage collection
c. Steele Creek Library
d. Fire protection
e. Public parks
f. Police protection
October
2002 - More candy is sold at Halloween than during any other
holiday period. What is the estimated annual value of candy
sold nationwide?
a. $10 million,
b. $100 million,
c. $500 million,
d. $2 billion.
August 2002 -
According to the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
list of Champion Trees, the largest willow oak in North
Carolina is located in what county?
June 2002 - How
many total acres are in Griers Fork (including lots, streets,
and the greenway)?
April 2002 -
What was located at Arrowood Industrial Park on
Westinghouse Boulevard before it was Arrowood Industrial
Park?
February 2002 -
What is the approximate elevation (in feet above sea level) at
the Griers Fork front entrance?
December
2001 - What large national chain store is planned near Lowes in
Whitehall Commons?
October
2001 - How many pansies are planted at the Griers Fork front
entrance?
August
2001 - Which is closest to Griers Fork (as the crow flies),
downtown Charlotte or downtown Fort Mill, SC?
June
2001 - When was the Byrum General Store on Steele Creek Road
built?
April
2001 - How do the cows get back and forth between the pastures
on either side of Brown-Grier Road?
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Picnic
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The
following questions are updated from the trivia quiz distributed
at the May 2000 Griers Fork Picnic.
1.
How many total residential lots are there in Griers Fork?
a. 45
b. 102
c. 182
d. 296
2. What was Griers Fork before it became a
subdivision?
a. Forest
b. Swamp
c. Cow Pasture
d. Used Car Lot
3. Who owns the grassed area at the main entrance to
Griers Fork where the Griers Fork sign and gazebo are located?
a. George Brown-Grier
b. Pulte Homes
c. Mecklenburg County Parks
d. Griers Fork Homeowners Association
4. Approximately when was the first home sold in
Griers Fork?
a. October 1996
b. October 1997
c. October 1998
d. October 1999
5. What is the name of the Griers Fork Newsletter?
a. Griers Fork Monthly Tattler
b. Griers Fork Newsletter
c. Charlotte Observer
d. The Fork in the Road
6. Which of the following is NOT the name of a street
in Griers Fork?
a. Dresden Drive
b. Gauley Circle
c. Tioga Lane
d. Ansted Way Court
7. Griers Fork is in what middle school attendance
zone?
a. Lake Wylie
b. Kennedy
c. Pineville
d. Quail Hollow
8. Which of the following retail stores opened in 2000
on South Tryon Street (Hwy 49) near Arrowood Road
and I-485?
a. Fannie Farmer Outlet Store
b. Circuit City
c. Lowes
d. Belks
9. What is planned to be built along Arrowood Road just
east of I-485?
a. An 11 Building Corporate Center
b. Approximately 1,600 Apartments
c. An 85 Store Shopping Mall
d. Over 800 Single-Family Homes
10. What is the name of I-485 between Arrowood Road
and I-77?
a. Jim Martin Freeway
b. Barrett Wilmont Freeway
c. Seddon Goode Freeway
d. West Side Freeway
11. Which of the following is a Steele Creek Community
landmark?
a. Steele Creek Moravian Church
b. Smith-Brett Mansion
c. Shopton Dairy
d. Byrum's General Store
12. What is the name of a former horse farm located
directly in the path of I-485?
a. Whitehall
b. Taragate
c. Sandy Porter Farm
d. Olympic Downs
13. What is the official name of the Homeowners
Association?
a. Griers Fork Neighborhood Partnership
b. Griers Fork Owners' Association, Inc.
c. Griers Fork Residential Corporation
d. Griers Fork Subdivision Association
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Answers:
Questions
from "A Griers Fork in the Road"
August 2003
- 41 street lights
June 2003 -
One-hundred-and-eighty-two residences - This also was the
answer to the Griers Fork Word Search
April 2003 -
The mascots are:
Olympic - Trojans
Kennedy - Wapiti, which is the Algonquin Indian name for elk
Steele Creek - Cougars
February 2003 -
The four new developments are
Ayrsley -1600 residences
Berewick - 2800 residences
Island Pointe - 400 residences (This project will be renamed.)
Palisades - 4100 residences
Read more about these projects on the Steele
Creek Residents Association web site.
December 2002 -
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have been pretty efficient
about dividing the local government workload.
a. Street maintenance - Charlotte (The North Carolina
Department of Transportation maintains roads outside cities.
Street maintenance is not a function of county governments in
North Carolina.)
b. Garbage collection - Charlotte (Private garbage collection
companies provide pickup service outside the city.)
c. Steele Creek Library - Mecklenburg County runs the
libraries
d. Fire protection - Charlotte (Volunteer fire departments
provide fire protection outside the city.)
e. Public parks - Mecklenburg County runs the parks and
actually owns the Griers Fork front entrance area.
f. Police protection - Charlotte. When the Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County police departments merged, the new
department came under city administration, although property
owners in unincorporated Mecklenburg County contribute tax
money to its operation.
October 2002 -
According to the Halloween
page on the Baby Center
web site, the answer is d. $2 billion. They say "Candy
corn, anyone? With an estimated $ 1.93 billion in candy sales,
Halloween is the sweetest holiday of the year, beating out
Easter, Valentine's Day, and Christmas. In fact, one quarter
of all the candy sold each year is purchased between September
15 and November 10."
August 2002 -
Another obvious answer. The state champion willow oak is in
Mecklenburg County! According
to the list on the North
Carolina Division of Forest Resources web site, it's a
90-foot tree originally listed in 1990. According to the Mecklenburg
County Treasure Tree web site, this tree is now 127 feet
tall, and it has a trunk circumference of 325 inches and a
crown spread of 113 feet. It is located off Gibbon Road near
the old Metrolina Fairgrounds in north Charlotte.
The national
champion willow oak tree is a 138 foot tall tree in Thomaston,
Georgia.
The trees we'll
get from Charlotte's Tree Co-op Program will be about 10 feet
tall, but in a few hundred years, maybe one of them will make
the list.
June 2002 - The
original 150-lot development was created from three parcels
totaling a little over 38 acres. The second phase with 32 lots
on McGloughlin Way Court was 6 acres, bringing the total area
of Griers Fork to about 44 acres.
April 2002 -
Arrowood Industrial Park formerly was a Naval Ammunition
Depot, more commonly called the "shell plant."
Opened at the beginning of World War II in 1942 and operated
by the U. S. Rubber Company, the facility covered over 2,200
acres and at times employed over 10,000 people. The plant
closed after the war and local businessmen bought the property
and created the current industrial park. This park and
surrounding areas currently contain over 2,200 businesses
and employ over 60,000 persons, making the Arrowood area one
on the largest employment centers in Mecklenburg County.
February 2002 -
The elevation at the front entrance is just over 620 feet
above sea level. The elevation within Griers Fork ranges from
610 feet at the south end of the creek to 670 feet at the
horse pasture behind the houses on Nestar Place according to
the contours on the Mecklenburg County Geographic information
System. (http://maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us/)
December 2001 -
If you guessed the obvious, you're right. It's Wal-Mart! But
not just a regular Wal-Mart--it's going to be a 217,000 square
foot Wal-Mart Supercenter. Whitehall developers recently
requested a zoning change that would allow additional
commercial development in this shopping area at Hwy 49 between
I-485 and Arrowood Road. There is insufficient room for any
additional big box stores, but almost any other retail is
possible, including smaller shops, restaurants, or gas
stations.
October
2001 - 314 pansies were planted at the Griers Fork front
entrance and were alive on October 7. Most came from The Growers
Outlet on South Boulevard. The sad ones along the edges came
from Bi-Lo because the crew ran out of the good ones and were
too pooped to go all the way back to the garden shop.
August
2001 - Although a crow could get from Griers Fork to the South
Carolina border in just a little over 3 miles, Fort Mill is
about 9 and a half miles away. Downtown Charlotte is closer to
Griers Fork at a little over 8 and a half miles.
June
2001 - Byrum General Store was built by Joseph Rufus Hayes about
1890. He ran a post office out of the store and provided the
community with all the basic needs for a home until he died in
1914. William Lester Byrum purchased the store, which is still
owned and run by members of the Byrum family. The store is rural
Mecklenburg County's oldest surviving commercial building.
April
2001 - They walk under the road through the Steele Creek
culvert.
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1.c.
The original area contained 150 lots, with Eastwood Homes and
Pulte Homes each building 75 houses. A second section on the
continuation of McGloughlin Way Court was added in 1999. This
section contains 32 lots, giving Griers Fork a total of 182
lots.
2.c. The Brown and Grier families have raised cows in this area
for generations.
3.c. Originally owned by the developer of Griers Fork, the
entrance area and greenway behind the houses along Griers Fork
Drive was transferred to the Mecklenburg County Parks Department
in December 2000. There is no common area owned by the homeowners
association.
4.c. October 1998.
5.d. The Fork in the Road.
6.a. Dresden Drive.
7.b. Kennedy Middle Scholl, which is right up the road, along
with the other schools with Griers Fork in their attendance
area: Olympic High School and Steele Creek Elementary School.
8.c. Lowes--you can't miss it!
9.a. Once completed, it will be one of the largest
concentrations of office space in Mecklenburg County.
10.c. In March 1997, the North Carolina Department of
Transportation named the western section of I-485 between I-77
and I-85 the Seddon "Rusty" Goode Highway. Rusty Goode
was Mecklenburg County's representative on the North Carolina
Transportation Board for many years. (The section east of I-77
is named after Jim Martin.)
11.d. Byrum's General Store served the Steele Creek area for
many years, but it now mostly sells fishing supplies. Hunter
Farms does have a dairy on Shopton Road.
12.a. The Whitehall complex of offices, apartments, and retail
areas formerly was a horse farm, specializing in trotters.
Taragate is a nearby subdivision which, along with Twelve Oaks,
follows a "Gone with the Wind" theme in its street
names.
13.b. The Griers Fork Owners' Association Inc. was created as a
nonprofit corporation on July 10, 1998 by the Secretary of State
of North Carolina
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