Mount Airy North Carolina
Step back to a simpler time when you visit Mount Airy NC. Actor Andy Griffith grew up here, and it's no coincidence that a stroll down Mount Airy's Main Street reminds people of the town of Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show
It is noted that that the first settlers came to Mount Airy’s town site before 1747, almost 150 years before the town was incorporated. Jefferson and Frye made their map of this region after the boundary survey of 1747, they noted these settlers: Loven, Mount, and a Scotsman named Rentfrow or Rentfrew, who probably had his home on the hill (post office site) which still bears his name and who gave his name to the river which we call the Ararat and to the street we call Renfro.
In 1801, Thomas Perkins bought from Surry’s most important citizen of his time, Martin Armstrong, his plantation home on the river of Hamburg Street. He named it Mount Airy. Since affairs centered around this plantation, the little settlement became known as Mount Airy. Mount Airy became an official post office in 1832 with James Tucker as postmaster. In 1885 Mount Airy was incorporated. Mount Airy began to grow quickly, which spawned fire and police protection, water works in 1895 and garbage collection in 1899.
That the inhabitants of the City town of Mount Airy shall continue to be as heretofore a body corporate, under the name of “the Town of Mount Airy,” and under the name and style of “The Town of Mount Airy,” and under such name is hereby invested with all privileges, immunities and franchises property and all other rights hereto belonging or appertaining to the town of Mount Airy, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, acquire and hold property, real and personal, for the use of the town, as its board of commissioners may deem necessary and expedient.
The officers of the town of Mount Airy shall consist of a Mayor and five commissioners, to be elected by ballot on the first Monday in May of each year (or any other day as may be designated and set apart by the general law of the State for municipal elections); also a constable, secretary and a treasurer, to be chosen by the board of commissioners immediately after its organization, to hold for one year or until successors are elected and qualified; and it shall be the duty of the Mayor to give notice of the election ten days previous thereto by posters written or printed and put up at three or more public places within the corporate limits of the town; and if the board of commissioner of Surry County shall fail or neglect to appoint inspectors, two resident citizens shall be appointed by the mayor, who with himself shall hold said election.
The mayor, as a peace officer shall have within the corporate limits, all the powers of a justice of the peace, and as a judicial officer within the same jurisdiction and authority necessary to issue, process upon and to hear and determine all cases arising upon the ordinances of the board of commissioners, to impose penalties upon the adjudged violation thereof, to tine and imprison either in the Guard House of the town or the common jail of the county, and execute all laws and ordinances of the town; Provided, that in all cases any person dissatisfied with his judgment may appeal to the Superior Court of Surry County, upon recognition, with security for his appearance at the next term thereof.
That every violation of a town ordinance shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment of not more than thirty days.
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