I like to imagine this is what the children of Mayberry, like Opie, would have learned. They would’ve learned about hunters on horseback, early settlers coming by wagon train and 18th-century wars.
The museum spans three floors of the building with a model railroad in the back room. The railroad arrived in 1888 and helped boost local industry and granite quarry output. Modern hybrid corn was bred by J.H. Banner in the area.
Their most remarkable exhibit was on the lives of Eng and Chang, the original Siamese twins who settled in Mount Airy. They married a pair of sisters on the same day and had 21 children between them. They lived until they were 63 and died together in 1874.
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