2019 MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY BEE

2019 MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY BEE

The 3rdAnnual History Bee, co-sponsored by the Mitchell County Historical Society and Mitchell News-Journal, is scheduled for Thursday evening, 21 March 2019, at 6:00 PM; once again, we will convene in the Historic Courthouse in Bakersville.  Fifty-Eight Mitchell...
School in Mitchell County

School in Mitchell County

School started up again this week.  North Carolina state law mandates 180 days of school today, but Mitchell County’s student population a century ago didn’t get that many days of instruction.  Like other rural children, they were likely to attend school in the winter...