Mayberry is the name of a fictional town in North Carolina which was the setting for the American television sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.. This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities (begining with the letters A-M) that do not exist in the world we know. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 500 miles (805 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 9. ... The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. ... Mayberry R.F.D., (a postal abbreviation for Rural Free Delivery) was a spinoff, or perhaps more accurately a direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show under a new title. ...

Mayberry, population 1,800, was a small rural town which is remembered as much for its slow-paced life as it was for the unique characters that inhabited it. [1] Mayberry had one traffic stop and, with the notable exception of moonshining (which seemed to be commonplace), was usually crime-free. This made for an interesting backdrop for The Andy Griffith Show, which depicted the day to day life of the town's sheriff, Andy Taylor. Sheriff Taylor seemed to spend more time dealing with his deputy Barney Fife's antics than actual law and order. Shine Road The name tells the history of this back road Hemingway, South Carolina The literal meaning of moonshine is the light of the moon, but because the activity of distilling whiskey unlawfully was usually done at night with as little light as possible, the word became both a verb... Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show Barney Fife was the fictional deputy sheriff in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ...

Some of the town's landmarks:

• The Mayberry Courthouse and Sheriff's Office — Where Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife conducted law and order in Mayberry. It also served as the county jail. Aside from Andy Taylor's home, this was the main setting for The Andy Griffith Show.
• Myer's Lake — As seen in the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show, it was the place Andy and Opie Taylor went fishing, and where Barney often drove with Thelma Lou for their "romantic getaways".
• Walker's Drug Store — This was the town drug store and soda shop run by Ellie Walker, Andy's first girlfriend (played by Elinor Donahue) on the show. In the early episodes, characters often referred to "going to Walker's Drug Store for an ice cream soda."
• Floyd's Barber Shop — Run by the scatterbrained Floyd Lawson, it was the main center 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.
• Emmett's Fix-it Shop — Run by handyman Emmett Clark, this was the business that replaced Floyd's when Howard McNear left the show.
• Weaver's Department Store — Run by the miserly Ben Weaver.
• The Grand Theatre — The movie theater where Andy and Barney often took their girlfriends (Helen Crump and Thelma Lou, respectively) on dates.
• Wally's Filling Station — The town's only known gas station, it was the place of employment for cousins Goober and Gomer Pyle. It also served as the town's auto repair garage.
• Bluebird Diner — This was the restaurant where Barney was often seen calling to talk to his secret love, the enigmatic waitress "Juanita".
• Mayberry Hotel — Where out-of-towners often stayed, the Mayberry Hotel was also where choir director John Masters was employed.
• Snappy Lunch - A Mayberry diner named after a real eatery which still serves lunches in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
• Taylor House - A humble yet handsome two-storey bungalow, only 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 stone fireplace.

Many towns in North Carolina have been proposed as "the original Mayberry," but it is most likely that the town was loosely based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Griffith has also indicated that nearby Pilot Mountain, N.C., also in Surry County, North Carolina, inspired him in creating the town. However, it is more likely that Pilot Mountain was the inspiration for the fictional town of "Mount Pilot", a nearby larger town in relation to Mayberry, often referred to and occasionally visited by the characters in The Andy Griffith Show. Elinor Donahue (born April 19, 1937 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American actress. ... Floyd Lawson was the slow-paced, somewhat absentminded barber in The Andy Griffith Show. ... Howard McNear (January 27, 1905 – January 3, 1969) was an American film, television and radio character actor. ... Helen Crump was a fictional character on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ... Thelma Lou was a fictional character on the long-running 1960s American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ... Goober Pyle was the fictional auto mechanic for the town of Mayberry in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and its later spin-off series Mayberry RFD. He was played by George Lindsey. ... Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a television series that ran on CBS from 1964 to 1969, with episodes rerun in mid-1970. ... Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, singer, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. ... Mount Airy is a city located in Surry County, North Carolina, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,484. ... The distinctive Big Pinnacle of Pilot Mountain. ... Surry County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... Mt. ...

Due to the success and notoriety of the television show, "Mayberry" has been used as a term for both idyllic small town life and for rural simplicity (both good and ill). For example, in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a vampire says that the high death count in Sunnydale "makes D.C. look...like Mayberry." Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American television series based upon the 1992 film of the same name. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires (or vampiress, for female) are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ...

The fictional town of Mayberry originated in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show and was the setting of both The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD. Although the county seat of an agricultural county, black people are rarely seen in Mayberry or the surrounding county. The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first four seasons and in syndication). ... The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. ... Mayberry R.F.D. was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...

Mayberry is also the name of real community that was located in Laurens County, Georgia, around the time of the Great Depression and WWII. Mayberry was situated between Rentz and Dexter, Georgia on what is now Mark Wood Road, and had its own railroad stop. The tracks are now gone, and trains no longer pass through the area. The population of the area has increased greatly, but it remains a rural location, at least three miles from the smallest nearby town. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 (although it effects were not fully felt until late in 1930) and lasting through most of the 1930s. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

References

• Behind the Scenes of the Real Mayberry A behind the scenes look at The Andy Griffith Show and the real Mayberry, includes filming locations, the stars made on the show, and Mayberry trivia.