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Spruce Pine is a town in Mitchell County, North Carolina, and with 2,194 residents at the 2020 census it is the largest town in the county.

Spruce Pine was founded and incorporated in 1907, when the Clinchfield Railroad made its way up the North Toe River from Erwin, Tennessee.

The town was originally centered around a tavern operated by Isaac English, located on an old roadway that ran from Cranberry down to Marion, North Carolina.

Spruce Pine is the namesake of the Spruce Pine Mining District, one of the only places in the world where high-purity quartz — a mineral required for products such as semiconductors — can be found.

Spruce Pine bills itself as 'The Mineral City of the World' because of the wealth of minerals mined in the surrounding district.

Spruce Pine is the exclusive supplier of sand to Augusta National Golf Club.

Mining companies such as The Feldspar Company and Spruce Pine Mica operated in and around town, and the mining industry made Spruce Pine the commercial and cultural hub of the Toe River Valley.

The Downtown Spruce Pine Historic District and the Gunter Building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mayland Community College calls Spruce Pine home, while the town's older students attend Mitchell High School in the nearby Ledger community.

Spruce Pine has its own primary and middle schools — Greenlee Primary, Deyton Elementary, and Harris Middle School — and is home to The Mitchell News-Journal, a weekly newspaper, and WTOE radio.