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Bronze plaque honoring Elisha Mitchell
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Photo by Emily Jack.
- Date created
- October 13, 2007
- Location
- North Carolina
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Plaque honoring Elisha Mitchell, for whom Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina is named. Elisha Mitchell measured the height of the mountain — the highest point east of the Mississippi River — in 1835. A 12-foot tall bronze monument was placed on the summit of Mt. Mitchell twelve years after Elisha Mitchell’s death in 1857. This plaque, which was part of the monument, reads:
Here lies in hope of a blessed resurrection the body of the Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D.D., who, after being for 39 years a professor in the University of North Carolina, lost his life in the scientific exploration of this mountain in the 64th year of his age, June 27th 1857.
