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36550
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Part of the story of what North Carolina’s State Park System has become is how it began. Details of that story include individuals such as Elisha Mitchell, who proved in 1882 the mountain later named Mount Mitchell was the highest in the United States; Governor Lock Craig, instrumental in the establishment of the State Park in 1915; Jerome B. Freedman and Lucius Morse, who dedicated Chimney Rock in 1916.
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37893
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At 6,684 feet, its cited as the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Mount Mitchell offers a panoramic view, if one reaches the top of the mountain on a clear day, a condition noted by the author as impossible 8 out of every 10 days of the year.
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41248
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The claim for ownership of a mountain was waged for over a century and involved locals, state and federal authorities, and private interest groups. Officially, much of the land around Mount Mitchell currently belongs to the government. Continuing conservation efforts suggest, though, that ownership, as defined by a sense of responsibility, is still the province of the public.
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Mount Mitchell--History; Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857; Conservation of natural resources--Mount Mitchell; Blount, John Gray, 1752-1833; Strother, John, d. 1815; Love, Robert, 1760-1845; Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--Wilson Library--North Carolina Collection; Wilson, Thomas David, 1825-1909--see also Big Tom Wilson ; Clingman, T.L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897; Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894; Bailey, John Lancaster, 1785-1874; Craig, Locke, 1860-1924; Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy