Junion ’26: Who Was Henry Brevard? is an afternoon of community, history and celebration on Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 2 to 5 p.m., at historic Cedar Grove, 8229 Gilead Road, Huntersville, North Carolina.
Cedar Grove is on the site of the 1775 Hugh Torance House and Store. The Torance House and Store is North Carolina’s oldest standing store and one of Mecklenburg County’s few surviving 18th century structures. Cedar Grove is the 1831 Greek Revival home of James G. Torrence, son of Hugh and Isabella Torance.
Junion is a reunion project, collecting the stories of all the people who have lived on Hugh Torance’s land, including indigenous peoples, European colonists, enslaved people and farm tenants. HEARTS Junion is annual celebration of this project. Read more here.
An annual event, Hearts Junion features history, music and art. It’s free, but tickets are required.
André Kearns, Co-Chair of HEARTS Reunion Project, returns to historic Cedar Grove to share his latest findings on Henry Brevard of Lincoln County at this year’s 5th anniversary of HEARTS Junion celebration.
Henry Brevard was an enslaved ironworker on the Brevard plantation, who became a successful blacksmith in Catawba Springs after the war. Kearns shared, “Within a decade of the Civil War’s end, he did something extraordinary. In 1874, Henry Brevard purchased 90 acres of Lincoln County land in his own name.” It was through his property ownership that Brevard’s Chapel came to be. Founded on Henry’s land originally, the land was transferred by deed to the church in the 1880’s.
HEARTS Junion also includes new eco-minutes, live music, and a new visual art exhibit in Cedar Grove’s Center Hall, “Liberty,” made possible in partnership with Nine-Eighteen-Nine Gallery.
The featured musician for HEARTS Junion ’26 is DaShawn Hickman, known nationally for his mastery of Sacred Steel, a unique musical tradition that originated within African American Pentecostal churches of the 1930’s, and blends gospel music with the expressive sounds of the pedal steel guitar.
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8229 Gilead Road
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