Mortimer, North Carolina Explained

Mortimer, North Carolina is a ghost town in Wilson Creek Township, Caldwell County, in the northwestern part of the state.

Once a mill town with a population of around 800, the town flooded in 1940 and was subsequently abandoned. Several remains are existent today, including machinery from the mill and the foundations of several buildings.^[1]

External links

• History of Mortimer and Edgemont, N.C. - Old Photographs and Images of Mortimer and Edgemont
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190206005654/http://web.utk.edu/~jeparks/history.htm February 16, 2009 copy of above link from Web Archive.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Welcome to an American ghost town - population six . Yeomans . Emma . 2018-04-17 . The Telegraph . en-GB . 2019-08-19.