Record Series and Collections

1827

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-G/160 (WB = WillBook)

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Bertie County

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1867 - 1997

Photograph shows a sketch from a book of the signal station and Elisha Mitchell's grave at the summit of Black Mountain, North Carolina.

1956

Two Separate Views of the Grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell, at the Foot of Mount Mitchell, Yancey County, North Carolina, October, 1956.

[ca. 1867 - 1955 ]

Stereoscopic View of the Grave of Dr. Elisha Mitchell (19 August 1793- 27 June 1857), Educator, Geologist, Presbyterian Minister, and Explorer, at the Foot of Mount Mitchell, Yancey County, North Carolina; Photograph Taken by Rufus Morgan, circa ...

1818

This is an electrostatic copy of an original manuscript map submitted along with and attached to a report of November 26, 1818 from Joseph Caldwell and Elisha Mitchell to the State Board of Internal Improvements. The report concerns the improvement of ...

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1689 - 2017

This is a collection of miscellaneous original materials, and a portion of photocopies and transcripts from other repositories. Historical periods represented include the colonial era, Revolutionary War, post-Revolutionary War; Civil War, ...

1873

The Great South Expedition of Western North Carolina Includes the Following Twenty Nine Images: 1. Lower Sugar Fork Falls. 2. The Judge, A Native and Guide on the Tour. 3. The Judge Showing the Artist's Sketch Book. 4. The Canaan of the Catalouche- Seen ...

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1790 - 1950

Typescripts of three unpublished autobiographical works written by Mrs.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 volume contains copies of six ...

1763 - 1895

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. Barringer and Nicholas W. Woodfin and ...

1796 - 1909

Primarily deeds and plats (1837-1892) and copies of deeds (1796-1875) belonging to the Ray family in Buncombe and Yancey counties. A pamphlet by Hodge Mathes, Saga of the Carolina Hills, concerns Prof. Elisha Mitchell's explorations and his guide "Big ...

1857

Material chiefly concerning memorials to Dr. Elisha Mitchell, UNC professor who died accidentally on "Black Mountain," including typed copies or abstracts of news articles about renaming it Mt. Mitchell; of letter from Z. B. Vance describing search for ...