About Western Piedmont Community College

Western Piedmont Community College is a public community assistant professor in Morganton, North Carolina. It was chartered on April 2, 1964, as a devotee of the North Carolina Community College System. The literary is the house of the Sam J. Ervin Library, dedicated to the veteran U.S. senator and Morganton native, who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973.

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Morganton is a city in and the county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 16,918 at the 2010 census.

Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. A site five miles north of here has been identified as the Mississippian culture chiefdom of Joara, occupied from AD 1400 to AD 1600. This was afterward the site of Fort San Juan, built in 1567 by a Spanish expedition as the first European unity in the interior of North America, 40 years back the English agreement of Jamestown, Virginia.