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Goerch journeys to Yancey County which is located in the state's high country. Mt. Mitchell, the highest mountain east of the Mississippi, rises there. The county possesses great mineral wealth, including kaolin, feldspar, mica, and kyanite. The county seat is Burnsville where the famous Nu-Wray Hotel is located. Yancey is a county with interesting small town names--Day Book, Possum Trot, Hardscrabble, and Lickskillet.
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Matt and Robert Ransom are the only two brothers in the state's history who became Major General in the Confederate Army. They were also distinguished in other lines of work before and after the Civil War, including lawyer, civil engineer, U.S. Cavalry officer, and U.S. Senator.
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