Just a few miles south of the Virginia state line, Mount Airy, North Carolina – a former stagecoach stop along the Ararat River – is thought to have inspired Mayberry, the fictional town where ...

Andy Griffith always denied that his hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina was the model for Mayberry, the fictional location of "The Andy Griffith Show." In fact, Griffith spent little time ...

Is Mayberry a Real Place ... it was the producers who came up with the location. “At first Sheldon [Leonard] didn’t want it to be in North Carolina, he just wanted it to be somewhere in ...