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The district encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding industrial and residential sections of Mount Airy. They were primarily built between about 1880 and 1930 and include notable examples of Late Victorian and Bungalow / American Craftsman architecture.
Mount Airy / ˈ m aʊ n t ər i / [4] is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 10,676. [ 5 ] As of 2020, the city is the most populous municipality in Surry County.
Parkersburg is a city in Butler County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,015 in the 2020 census , an increase from 1,870 in the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Parkersburg, although not the county seat, is the highest-populated city in Butler County.
Edward Arthur Thomas [1] (July 17, 1950 – June 24, 2009) was an American high school football coach. On June 24, 2009, Thomas was shot and killed in his Parkersburg, Iowa football team's weight room by Mark Becker, one of Thomas' former players. [2]
Surry County is home to three local newspapers, The Mount Airy News of Mount Airy, The Pilot in Pilot Mountain and The Tribune of Elkin. Additionally, the larger daily Winston-Salem Journal covers news and events in the county. One local newspaper, The Messenger in Mount Airy, ceased operation in approximately 2011.
North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex is a historic granite quarry and national historic district located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 8 contributing structures in an area approximately one mile long and 1/3 mile wide.
The Messenger began as a weekday broadsheet whose first edition was printed on July 9, 2007, after the purchase of The Mount Airy News and Elkin's The Tribune by Heartland Publications. Several staffers, including the publishers of both The News and The Tribune , left their respective newspapers to launch The Messenger as a community newspaper ...
Minutes after forming, it grew into a large wedge tornado, as it was heading towards Parkersburg at EF5 intensity, during graduation day. Multiple homes and buildings were swept away, 7 people died in Parkersburg. After hitting Parkersburg, the tornado then continued to move over the Legend Trail Golf Course, leaving a trench of 1 mile.