Mount Airy was settled in the 1750s as a stagecoach stop on the road between Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Galax, Virginia. It was named for a nearby plantation. Mount Airy was incorporated in 1885.

The W. F. Carter House, William Carter House, Edgar Harvey Hennis House, William Alfred Moore House, Mount Airy Historic District, North Carolina Granite Corporation Quarry Complex, Renfro Mill, and Trinity Episcopal Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Mayberry is a fictional community that was the setting for two popular American television sitcoms, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. Mayberry was also the setting for a 1986 reunion television movie titled Return to Mayberry. Mayberry was set in North Carolina and is said to be based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Below: The courthouse, two attached stores, and the attached Mayberry Hotel. Plus Wally's Filling Station.

Below: Karen Duquette outside of The Mayberry Courthouse where Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife maintained law and order.

Below: The Mayberry Courthouse and the nearby Wally's Filling Station.

Below: In front of the courthouse and alongside of the courthouse were individual stones honoring the stars of The Andy Griffith Show.

Below: The Mayberry Courthouse also contained the county jail, two cells and a back room.

Below: The Mayberry Courthouse also had the Mayor's office upstairs. No inside stairs are seen on the show. There is an outside fire escape. Aside from Andy Taylor's home, the Mayberry Courthouse was the main setting for The Andy Griffith Show.

Below: The Sheriff and his twin - The Justice of the Peace in the Mayberry Courthouse.

Below: Karen Duquette enjoyed a rocking chair outside of Wally's Filling Station, the town's only known gas station which employed cousins Gomer Pyle and Goober. It also served as the town's auto repair garage.

Below: Karen Duquette entered the Mayberry Hotel that was attached to the courthouse.

Below: The Taylor House is a humble, yet handsome, two-story frame house at 332 Maple Road (though once noted by Barney to be on Elm St.), a short walk from the courthouse. Notable features include a front porch with a swing - perfect for conversation and guitar playing, a back porch with an extra refrigerator, and a living room with a high ceiling and rough-hewn (rusticated ashlar) stone fireplace. The house was currently used as temporary lodging for visitors to this area, so the two RV Gypsies could not go inside.

Below: Floyd's Barber Shop was run by the "scatterbrained" Floyd Lawson. It was one of the main centers of action in Mayberry. On any given day, it was not unusual to see many of the town's important figures, including the Mayor and the Sheriff, gathered here. Floyd Lawson (Floyd the Barber) is a fictional character on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, which was inspired by a real barber in Andy Griffith's real-life hometown of Mt. Airy, North Carolina. The real-life barber's name is Russell Hiatt, who had actually cut Andy Griffith's hair on a regular basis while Andy was young and living in Mount Airy. As of January 2012, the real life "Floyd" was still cutting hair daily at his Barber Shop "Floyd's City Barber Shop" in Downtown Mt. Airy.

As the two RV Gypsies entered Floyd's Barber Shop, Karen Duquette saw Russell Hiatt - the real life Floyd - and she tripped over the foot stool attached to the first barber chair and landed on the floor. What a terrible way to make a first impression.

Visitors to Mayberry can pay for a tour around town in a horse-drawn buggy, or they can take a ride in one of the Mayberry Sheriff's cars.

Mayberry County Store

Below: Karen Duquette went fishing with Andy Griffith and Opie.

Below: Lee Duquette got kissed in Andy Griffith Museum

Below: A War Memorial

Snappy Lunch - a Mayberry diner named after a real eatery that still serves lunch in Mount Airy, North Carolina. The two RV Gypsies tried to eat there, but the line to get inside was very long. So they waited took a walk and when they returned, the diner had just closed for the day.