was always bothered by something as he pored over topographic maps of Pisgah National Forest, which surrounds Mount Mitchell. “I always wondered, what is that?” Blood said, pointing to a ...

“In 1953, the son of the Pioneer abolitionist Capt. William Mitchell, he gave the state the 30 acre hilltop with the intention that it become a public park to celebrate the Beecher Bible and Rifle ...

In 2016, The Conservation Fund celebrated the centennial of the N.C. State Park System and Mount Mitchell by purchasing 2,744 acres in the Black Mountains adjacent to Mitchell and giving the land ...

A Ribbon Cutting & Celebration will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21 at Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, 29000 ...