Mount Airy tourist information
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.
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