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English: Elisha Mitchell's tomb, Mount Mitchell (Yancey County, North Carolina)

Highest point in Eastern North America. The new observation platform is shown in the background. Placard reads:

HERE LIES IN THE HOPE OF A BLESSED RESURRECTION THE BODY OF THE REV. ELISHA MITCHELL, D.D. WHO AFTER BEING FOR THIRTY-NINE YEARS A PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA LOST HIS LIFE IN THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF THIS MOUNTAIN IN THE SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR OF HIS AGE. JUNE 27, 1837

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