Supporting local figure
“Scientist and professor. Died in attempt to prove this mountain highest in eastern U.S. Grave is at the summit, 285 yds. S.”
State historical marker: N-38: Elisha Mitchell 1793-1857
12 works in the index name this person, and 1 more are by them.
What it was and why it mattered
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge
Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this person. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
Correspondence, legal papers, bills, receipts, and other personal and business papers of Staton and other residents of Williamston. Correspondents include Asa Biggs, William James Bingham, Elisha Mitchell, John Spelman,…
Typescripts of three unpublished autobiographical works written by Mrs. Chamberlain in the 1940s: "What's Done and Past," "Oh Call Back Yesterday," and "Older Years Than Fifty," which describes Salisbury in the 1880s. A…
Papers of Swain, Buncombe Co. jurist, legislator, governor (1832- 1835), UNC president (1835-1867), and founding member of the North Carolina Historical Society, including letters from business associates D. L. Barringe…
This is a collection of miscellaneous items such as letters, deeds, grants, surveys, wills, leases, miscellaneous items, that also included a number of photcopies and transcripts from other repositories. Writers, letter…
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