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In December 1833, the General Assembly established a new western county, named Yancey. It was named in honor of Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell County. As a U.S. Congressman (1813–1817) and as speaker of the N.C. Senate (1817–1827), he was instrumental in many accomplishments that benefited the state, including the creation of an education fund that was the beginning of the N.C. Public School System. He was an advocate of correcting the inequality in representation in the General Assembly by the creation of new western counties; but he died on August 30, 1828, over five years before the General Assembly created a new county named in his honor. In Yancey's boundaries looms Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern U.S., at 6,684 feet above sea level.
Adjacent Counties
Towns, Townships & Communities
Bald Creek | Bent Creek | Brush Creek | Burnsville (County Seat) | Busick | Cane River | Celo | Crabtree | Day Brook | Egypt | Green Mountain | Hamrick | Jacks Creek | Micaville | Murchison | Newdale | Pensacola | Price's Creek | Ramseytown | Sioux | South Toe | Swiss | Windom
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National Register of Historic Places
Pisgah National Forest (part)
