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Mitchell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,903. [2] Its county seat is Bakersville. [3]The county is home to Spruce Pine, nicknamed the "Mineral City of the World", [4] and Bakersville, "Gateway to Roan Mountain", which includes the world's largest natural rhododendron garden and the longest stretch of grassy bald in the ...
Secondary education for Spruce Pine students is at Mitchell High School, located in the Ledger community of Mitchell County. Mayland Community College also calls Spruce Pine home, just outside the city limits to the east on the Avery County line. Founded by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1971, Mayland hosts some 35 curriculum ...
Bakersville is home to Gouge Primary School (K–4), Bowman Middle School (5–8), and Mitchell High School (9-12). The Mitchell County Library, a branch of the Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library, is located at 18 North Mitchell Avenue.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mitchell County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
The old Mitchell County Courthouse is an historic courthouse located at Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1907–1908, and is a two-story cast stone building in a vernacular Classical Revival style. It has a hipped roof with a two-stage square cupola crowned by a domical roof. It has four-sided turret-like corner bays.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday reduced the sentences of four people and issued pardons to four others. “Ensuring thorough review of cases while taking executive clemency action is a ...
Little Switzerland is an unincorporated community in McDowell and Mitchell counties of North Carolina, United States. It is located along North Carolina Highway 226A (NC 226A) off the Blue Ridge Parkway, directly north of Marion and south of Spruce Pine. The elevation is 3,468 feet (1,057 m) above sea level.
Caldwell County, Mitchell County, and Watauga County: Waightstill Avery (1741–1821), a soldier of the Revolution and Attorney General of North Carolina: 17,561: 248 sq mi (642 km 2) Beaufort County: 013: Washington: 1712: Bath County: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, who in 1709 became one of the Lords Proprietor: 44,481: 963 sq mi ...