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	Mitchell County, North Carolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mitchell County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
		It was named for Elisha Mitchell, professor of mathematics, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy at the University of North Carolina from 1818 until his death in 1857.
		Mitchell County is a member of the regional High Country Council of Governments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitchell_County,_North_Carolina (452 words)

	Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in eastern North America, excluding island summits.
		The mountain was named after Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who determined its height in 1835 and fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.
		The ascent of Mount Mitchell is now rather easy, since a road off the historic and scenic Blue Ridge Parkway runs nearby, and a 300-metre or 1000-foot trail leads through a conifer forest to the top.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Mitchell_(North_Carolina) (462 words)

	Elisha Mitchell and the Black Mountains
		Mitchell was well known for his extensive knowledge in a number of fields, and he was one of North Carolinas great scholars.
		Mitchell had hiked to the top of the ridge where he had been in 1835, on the high peak itself, and had become lost on his return from the top.
		This was during the peak of the destructive clear-cutting of Mt. Mitchell and Beeson and Mathis are keen to note the stark contrasts between the wildness of the Cane River Valley, and the unsightly heavily logged eastern slopes of the Blacks.
	ncnatural.com /Resources/Adventure/Black-Mtns.html (2647 words)

	Inventory of the Elisha Mitchell Papers, 1816-1905
		Elisha Mitchell was a native of Connecticut, student and tutor at Yale College, Presbyterian minister, and professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at the University of North Carolina, 1818-1857.
		Elisha Mitchell (19 August 1793-27 June 1857) of Connecticut was a graduate of Yale who taught at Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. and at New London, Conn., and was a tutor at Yale before becoming a professor at the University of North Carolina in January 1818.
		To settle the controversy, Mitchell went again to the mountains in 1857, andm in the course of this activity, fell down a steep bank into a creek and was drowned.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/00518.html (993 words)

	Mary Bogart's Mt Mitchell Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Urged on by the determination to settle once and for all the false claims of Senator Clingman, Dr. Elisha Mitchell set out on June 27th, 1857 to prove to the world that he was the first to measure the Black dome.
		Mitchell's body was found by Big Tom at the bottom of a 40 ft. ledge, immersed in an icy pool beneath a mountain waterfall.
		Elisha Mitchell fell to his death as did Gilgamesh in the ancient epic, but the monument stands above the mountain named in his honor as a claim to his immortality.
	ourworld.cs.com /maryhbogart/Mitchell.htm (1471 words)

	Elisha Mitchell
		Mitchell was one of the early geologic explorers of the high mountains known as the Black Mountains, and eventually his name was given to the very slopes that claimed his life.
		Mitchell was born in 1793 in Connecticut, and showed a strong interest in nature even as a child.
		Mitchell climbed Grandfather Mountain in 1828, then observed that the mountain now known as Mt. Mitchell was the highest of the region's peaks.
	www.mountaintimes.com /history/1920s/mitchell.php3 (635 words)

	GORP - Mount Mitchell - Hiking around Asheville
		One of Mitchell's former students, Thomas Clingman, who was at this time a United States senator, leaped into the fray and announced that Dr. Mitchell had erred and that the correct altitude of the mountain was 6,941 feet.
		Mitchell's remains were later exhumed and transported to the peak of the mountain that bears his name-a fitting tribute to one of the leading scholars of his age and one who brought the mountain to such public attention.
		To reach Mount Mitchell, the easiest and surest route is to join the Blue Ridge Parkway at Asheville and travel 35 miles north to NC 128.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_ash2.htm (1432 words)

	bookreviews49-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mitchell (the highest mountain in the east) and the Black Mountains of North Carolina.
		Where once there were tall and dense stands of chestnut, spruce-fir forests and herds of whitetail deer (millions of pelts were shipped out of the area each year in the 1770s) and fl bear, the mountains, today, lay gravely altered and afflicted.
		While the feuds between Elisha Mitchell and Thomas Clingman focused on which mountain was the tallest (Mitchell is buried on Mt. Mitchell), others logged, used fire to clear areas, mined gold and mica, restocked the streams, brought in exotic imports, built roads for tourists, and favored the hunter and sportsmen.
	www.asb.appstate.edu /bookreviews/bookreviews50-2.htm (461 words)

	UNC-TV ONLINE: Exploring North Carolina
		One of the greatest teachers in the history of the University of North Carolina was Elisha Mitchell.
		Mitchell’s discoveries in North Carolina’s Black Mountains proved this to be wrong, a finding of significance for North Carolina and the nation.
		At age 63, in 1857, he died from a fall on Mount Mitchell and was later buried at its summit.
	www.unctv.org /exploringNC/mmountain.html (226 words)

	Appalachian Summit
		Mitchel succeeded, I think, in making it appear, that that portion of the Black Mountain since called “Mitchel’s Peak” or “Mount Mitchel” was higher than “Mount Washington”, the most elevated point of the White Mountain range.
		But even at the time of [Mitchell’s] measurement, I was of the opinion that he had not succeeded in getting upon the highest point of the Black Mountain.
		Charles Mitchell and many others were in a deep valley on the head waters of another fork of the river, when the blast of a horn and the firing of guns on a distant peak, made us aware that some discovery was made.
	appalachiansummit.tripod.com /chapt35.htm (3972 words)

	The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain - Chapter XX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CHAPTER XX Elisha Mitchell, D.D., was born in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, on the 19th of August, 1793.
		Mitchell, and assisting in its after it was found, I have been requested by sun citizens to give to the public a sketch of the delplorable event.
		Mitchell, his daughter, and a servant boy, established his headquarters at Jesse Stepp's, at the foot of the mountain, and began the laborious task of ascertaining height of the highest peak by an instrumental survey, which, as the former admeasurements were only barometrical, would fix its altitude with perfect acuracy.
	www.ls.net /~newriver/nc/bg20.htm (2903 words)

	UNIVERSITY GAZETTE \| July 14, 2004 \| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
		Mitchell was a much beloved professor from 1818 until his death in 1857.
		Mitchell was determined to prove his claim to the highest peak but could not travel to the mountains until June 1857.
		Although Mitchell was first buried in the Presbyterian graveyard in Asheville, he was reburied on the mountaintop in a formal ceremony conducted by the University a year later.
	gazette.unc.edu /archives/04jul14/morestories.html (5780 words)

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		Yancey county is now bounded on the north by Mitchell county and the State of Tennessee; on the east by Mitchell and McDowell counties; on the south by McDowell and Madison; on the west by Madison and Buncombe counties and the Tennessee line.
		Mitchell, the highest mountain in the eastern half of North America, is in Yancey county.
		Mitchell is a part of the Black mountains which extend partly across this county.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/hownc005.html (11580 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mount Mitchell State Park at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mitchell explored the Black Mountain range and is the one who figured out how to calculate heights for the range.
		The reason we visited Mount Mitchell with school classes was because it is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River.
		Mount Mitchell is a half hour north of Asheville, NC in Burnsville.
	www.epinions.com /content_29655338628 (883 words)

	Elisha Mitchell
		MITCHELL, Elisha, educator, born in Washington, Connecticut, 19 August, 1793; died on Black mountain, North Carolina, 27 June, 1857.
		Black Dome, or Mitchell's High peak, he found to be the highest of the group, and while endeavoring to ascertain its exact altitude he was overtaken by a storm, and falling over a precipice into a pool was drowned.
		His body was first taken to Asheville for burial, but in 1858, in response to the desires of the mountaineers, it was re-entombed on the highest point of the mountain, and his last resting place is shown in the accompanying illustration.
	www.famousamericans.net /elishamitchell (459 words)

	Division of Parks and Recreation--Mount Mitchell State Park, Park history
		In 1835, Dr. Elisha Mitchell, a science professor at the University of North Carolina, made an excursion to the area to measure the mountain elevations.
		Through the use of barometric pressure readings and mathematical formulas, Mitchell figured the highest elevation of the range to be 6,476 feet, higher than that of Grandfather Mountain.
		Thomas Clingman, a former student of Dr. Mitchell's, and a United States senator, set the elevation of the highest peak at 6,941 feet and insisted that Mitchell had measured another peak.
	www.ils.unc.edu /parkproject/visit/momi/history.html (810 words)

	NCNatural's Appalachian/Toecane Ranger District
		Mt. Mitchell at 6,684 feet elevation is the highest mountain in the eastern United States.
		Elisha Mitchell, surveyor and botanist, likely travelled this trail during his exploration of the mountain that bears his name.
		Enter the Mt. Mitchell State Park via NC 128 north of the Blue Ridge Parkway, or reach the summit and nearby campground from access off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
	ncnatural.com /NCUSFS/Pisgah/toecane.html (456 words)

	Caleb's Press, Publisher of Mitchell's Peak by Robert Dellinger
		Mitchell's Peak won the 2003 Fiction Award of the NC Society of Historians.
		In 1835 Elisha Mitchell, professor at the University of North Carolina, became one of the first men to climb the Black Mountain in western North Carolina.
		Mitchell, then 64 years old, returned to the mountain and disappeared.
	members.aol.com /calebspress/intro.html (294 words)

	Columbia Basin Herald
		The series, opening on the nation's birthday, began with Mitchell singing the national anthem, two children guiding the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, a huge American flag covering the front of the stage, and with a message by two relatives of members of the 161st National Guard Infantry Unit.
		The show really took off with the presence of Spokane's Mitchell, whom for the second consecutive year wowed the crowd with her vocal ability and her stage presence.
		Mitchell would return one more time during the second set of songs by the orchestra, with similar results.
	www.columbiabasinherald.com /articles/2004/07/05/news/news01.txt (724 words)

	Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina
		Mount Mitchell, in the Black Mountains, is not only the highest point in North Carolina, but also the highest east of the Mississippi River.
		Mount Mitchell State Park, established in 1915, is the oldest state park in the Tarheel State.
		Thomas Clingman and Elisha Mitchell engaged in a lengthy dispute about which of the two men had been the first to accurately measure the mountain.
	americasroof.com /nc.shtml (757 words)

	greenville.com news: Mount Mitchell. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mount Mitchell, with its distinctive summit and storied past, has long been of great interest to all who live nearby or visit the area.
		But now Mount Mitchell State Park is proud to present its beautiful new museum to replace the 50-year-old former museum, with exciting, interactive displays and state-of-the-art computerized exhibits.
		Wilson, a mountain man who led a search party onto Mount Mitchell in search of the missing Dr. Elisha Mitchell (for whom the mountain is named), had a cabin on the mountain, and this exhibit is very near an exact copy of that cabin.
	www.greenville.com /news/mtmitchell.html (467 words)

	William Chambers Coker
		William Chambers Coker (1909) "Craterellus, Cantharellus and related genera in North Carolina; with a key to the genera of gill fungi" in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 35:1 pp.
		William Chambers Coker (1918) "The Lactarias of North Carolina" in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 34:1 pp.
		William Chambers Coker (1919) "The Hydnums of North Carolina" in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 34 pp.
	www.ilmyco.gen.chicago.il.us /Authors/Coker7.html (369 words)

	Mt. Mitchell State Park and the Black Mountains
		Mitchell, the highest peak, is named for Dr. Elisha Mitchell, a professor of sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill who first suggested that the peak that bears his name was the highest in the range.
		Dr. Mitchell died at a waterfall on the western slope of the mountain while returning from one of many exploratory trips to western North Carolina.
		Mitchell Trail, a 5.6 mile trek that begins at 3200' at Black Mountain Campground and ends at the summit of Mt. Mitchell.
	www.northcarolinaoutdoors.com /places/mountains/blacks.html (1383 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Mount Mitchell State Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mitchell's alpine environment hosts some birds more characteristic of New England and Canada, including winter wrens, slate-colored juncos, red crossbills and golden-crowned kinglets.
		The strenuous six-mile Mount Mitchell Trail goes to the Mitchell summit, where there is an observation tower offering views of mountains up to 70 miles away.
		Next to the tower, which also is accessible from a summit parking lot, is the grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who, in the mid-1800s, calculated the height of the peak using barometric pressure readings and mathematical formulas.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/557lls.htm (354 words)

	Division of Parks and Recreation--Mount Mitchell State Park, Things to do
		Educational materials about Mount Mitchell State Park have been developed for grades 4-6 and are correlated to North Carolina's competency-based curriculum in science, social studies, mathematics and English/language arts.
		The Mount Mitchell program introduces students to the forest types of the Blue Ridge Mountains, focusing on the potential causes for forest decline in the mountains and at Mount Mitchell.
		The body of Dr. Elisha Mitchell is buried next to the tower where a stone marker recounts his work in the Black Mountains.
	ils.unc.edu /parkproject/visit/momi/do.html (797 words)

	Newsletter V04IS02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Professor Mitchell was sure that the Black Mountains were higher than Mount Washington (6,288 feet ASL) in the New Hampshire White Mountain range but was not certain that he had correctly identified the highest point in the eastern United.
		Mitchell was convinced that he had identified, climbed and measured the highest peak in the Black Mountains.
		However the peak that Dr. Mitchell had climbed and measured on July 8, 1844 was three miles south of the highest peak in the east.
	www.jimcal.com /v04is02.htm (5753 words)

	Chapter 16 - Elisha Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1818, Mitchell came to UNC to teach math and natural philosophy, having been recommended to William Gaston who was a Trustee at the time.
		This letter from Mitchell underscores the fact that portraits were collected to decorate the room as well as to honor the subjects.
		From Mitchell’s estate, the deposits that the Societies had left with him were divided, and the Phi received “one half of the total, or $102.50.”[xxx]
	www.unc.edu /student/orgs/di_phi/reference_desk/docs/reckford/chapter16.htm (1939 words)

	Riddle Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In June 1998, a newsletter article titled Guide for Dr. Elisha Mitchell was published which mentioned that William Riddle, son of John W. Riddle, Sr., served as a guide for Dr. Mitchell in his quest for the highest point east of the Mississippi River.
		On the 19th of June, 1857, Dr. Elisha Mitchell, a professor in the University of North Carolina, went up with his son from Asheville, N.C., to the top of one of the peaks of the Black Mountains, -the peak known since that date as Mount Mitchell.
		Tom was a fine specimen of the mountaineer; a man of wood-craft, a follower of the chase, a slayer of the deer and bear on the mountain-side; a strong, fair face resisting sun-burn; Saxon-looking, with the flaxen hair of the Scandinavian curling on his bow--a man you could follow with confidence.
	www.jimcal.com /v09is02.htm (5959 words)

	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		It is located in Yancey county, in the western part of the state, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Asheville in the Black Mountains.
		Known by the Cherokee as Attakulla and formerly called Black Dome, it was renamed for a University of North Carolina professor, Elisha Mitchell, who in 1835 surveyed it as the highest point in the eastern United States.
		In 1857 Mitchell fell to his death on the mountain and was buried at its top.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9053021 (142 words)

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