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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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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 1, January 2018,
p47-88
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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
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24026
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In 1986, Lake View Park Commission turned to the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society for help with preventing a strip mall from being built on Beaver Lake and surrounding wetlands. Today, the area is a thriving bird sanctuary as a result of preservation and conservation efforts.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 11 Issue 11, November 2014,
p82-83, il
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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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8300
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Elisha Mitchell, scientist, minister, and University of North Carolina professor, lost his life trying to prove that Black Dome, now called Mount Mitchell, was the highest peak in the eastern United States. After his death, the U.S. Geological Service in 1881-1882 upheld his measurements of the highest peak in the Black Mountain Range and officially named it after him.
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4674
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In the Black Mountain range in Yancy County stand six of the tallest peaks east of the Rocky Mountains. All exceed 6,500 feet. The tallest is Mt. Mitchell, at 6,684 feet, which is also the tallest in eastern North America. Named for its early explorer, Elisha Mitchell, the peak is a place of great beauty and weather extremes. Currently the mountain's Fraser firs are dying from an imported European pest and acid rain and fog. Development is slowly creeping in upon the mountain, also.
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3410
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A controversy between Elisha Mitchell and Thomas L. Clingman over who was first to identify, climb, and measure the tallest mountain in the state ended tragically when Mitchell fell to his death, while trying to prove his claim.
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3560
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The state's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller. However, it was leading a search party to find Elisha Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 61 Issue 11, Nov 1997,
p18-23, il, por
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2583
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Elisha Mitchell, scientist, minister, and University of North Carolina professor, lost his life trying to prove that Black Dome, now called Mount Mitchell, was the highest peak in the Eastern United States.
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21461
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The first in a series of articles examining the mid-1850s dispute between Congressman Thomas Lanier Clingman and Professor of Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Elisha Mitchell, over who had been the first to identify, ascend, and measure the highest peak in the Black Mountains in Yancey County. The debate took a tragic turn when, in June 1857, Mitchell returned to the Mountains to vindicate his claim and lost his footing and fell to his death.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 3, July 1993,
p241-265, il, por, map, f
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21470
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The second in a series of articles examining the mid-1850s dispute between Congressman Thomas Lanier Clingman and Professor of Sciences at the University of North Carolina Elisha Mitchell over who had been the first to identify, ascend, and measure the highest peak in the Black Mountains in Yancey County. The debate took a tragic turn when, in June 1857, Mitchell returned to the mountains to vindicate his claim and lost his footing and fell to his death.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Oct 1993,
p401-429, il, por, map, f
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1395
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Wright shows that, by using existing technology, Elisha Mitchell could have accurately measured the height of the Black Mountains without exposing himself to the risks that killed him in 1857.
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Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
(NoCar Q 11 .J68x), Vol. 108 Issue 1, Spring 1992,
p1-10, il, f
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16101
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Mount Mitchell, in Yancey County, was named for Dr. Elisha Mitchell after he met his death on the peaks. A professor at the University of North Carolina, Mitchell conducted many scientific studies throughout the Black Mountain range until he fell to his death in 1857. The mountain was named in his honor and a monument constructed at the peak of Mount Mitchell.
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18693
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After Daniel Boone, North Carolina's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller who lived in Yancey County. When Dr. Elisha Mitchell, in seeking to prove the height of a mountain later named for him, disappeared, it was Tom Wilson who lead a search party to find Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame.
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15278
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Elisha Mitchell, scientist, minister, and University of North Carolina professor, lost his life trying to prove that Black Dome, now called Mount Mitchell, was the highest peak in the eastern United States. In 1881-1882, the United States Geological Service confirmed his measurements and named the peak after him. Mitchell determined its height in 1835 and was killed in a fall on the mountain in 1857.
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