by mcncdmin | Feb 11, 2020 | People
Samuel Silver was born near Micaville, NC in March 1854 to an unknown enslaved mother belonging to Green B. Silver. In 1860, Silver had 9 enslaved people including 5 children ages 2 months to 10 years. At that time there were 21 enslaved people of African descent...
by mcncdmin | Feb 11, 2020 | People
For a Valentine’s Day week Looking Back, the Mitchell County Historical Society made an appropriate selection from its collection of digitized photographs. The young man with his shined-up car and his best girl is Edd Ray Burleson (1915-1983), while his adoring...
by mcncdmin | Jan 29, 2020 | History, People
John Graves Heap and his business partner Elisha Bogue Clapp are credited with bringing large-scale mica mining operations to the Toe River Valley. They came here with their families in 1870 and within a few years owned and managed over a dozen mines that employed...
by mcncdmin | Jan 29, 2020 | People
Samuel Whitson was born April 30,1865 on Whitson Branch in the Red Hill community of Mitchell Count/y, the son of Matilda Garland Whitson. Matilda’s husband John had died in 1862; Samuel’s father was Sam McInturff, who was killed by Union raiders before his son’s...
by mcncdmin | Jan 12, 2020 | People
The Rev. George Washington Martin The Bakersville United Methodist Church had its beginnings as “The Bakersville Methodist Society” in 1871. Early in the history of Methodism, John Wesley encouraged itinerant preachers he commissioned to establish Methodist societies...
by mcncdmin | Dec 27, 2019 | People
The first Bailey settler in Mitchell County is said to have been John Bailey (1771-1838), who was the son of pioneer Edmond Bailey. Family tradition holds that following service in the French and Indian War, Edmond Bailey moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. ...
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