NC Gazetteer

Shulls Mill

A community in Watauga County
… community in S Watauga County on Watauga River. Est. as a post office in 1870 (closed 1955); named for Joseph Shulls, settler, whose daughter eloped with the local sheriff, Cobb McCandless. The couple went to the West, where McCandless joined the Jesse James gang and was killed by a member of the Jones gang, a rival group.