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Whittier is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson and Swain counties in the western part of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 25.
The county is located in far Western North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains. It holds more of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park than any other county in North Carolina or Tennessee. The highest point in the county is Kuwohi, elevation 6,643 feet (2,025 m), located on the NC/TN border. Kuwohi is the third-highest peak in North Carolina.
George was born in Cherokee, North Carolina, and was a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.He entered service at Whittier, North Carolina.At the time of George's death in battle, he held the rank of Private First Class in Company C of the 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.
Harry Huskey (left) with his wife Velma at an outing to temples in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh. Huskey married Velma Roeth (died 1991) in 1939 and had four children. In 1994, he married Nancy Grindstaff (died in 2016).
Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier Whittier College, a private liberal arts college Whittier Law School; Whittier High School; Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the Puente Hills; Whittier Narrows, a water gap between the Puente Hills and the Montebello Hills; Whittier, Denver, a neighborhood in Denver ...
Swain County High School is a result of consolidations in the 1950s and a 1970s building program. It was originally four high schools: Bryson City (1924), Whittier (1936), Alarka (1938), and Almond (1925), but in 1950 additions were made to Bryson City High School and officials named it Swain County High School.
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
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