Misenheimer is an incorporated village in Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. It is in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina, near the city of Richfield. The population was 728 as of the 2010 Census.

The literary town is dominated by the main campus of Pfeiffer University, a college circles which was upgraded from a tall school to a learned largely due to financial withhold by Henry and Annie Merner Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer plus housed Gray Stone Day School, a charter tall school. On January 6, 2011, Gray Stone moved to its other campus on what was since Pfeiffer house in the town.

U.S. Route 52 passes through Misenheimer along its route from Salisbury to Albemarle, and bisects the Pfeiffer campus along subsequent to a Norfolk Southern Railroad line. Misenheimer may have been the solitary municipality in America whose single-handedly traffic lighthearted is not at an intersection of two or more streets, but at a crosswalk to accommodate pedestrian traffic (the crosswalk mammal across US 52 connecting the two parts of Pfeiffer’s campus on opposite sides of the highway).

In 1825, Matthias Tobias Barringer discovered gold nuggets along a section of Long Creek that ran through his farm. He found $8,000 worth of gold ($179,000 in 2020 dollars), and eventually the country’s first gold vein in quartz. Newspapers in 24 states reported the find, and North Carolina’s gold hurry began. Meanwhile, Barringer was sued because of uncertainty exceeding whether he owned the home he mined; he won the clash in the 1880s. By 1888, new owners were keen the mine and they moved Long Creek. In 1903, the Whitney Company, which was also working on damming the Yadkin River, bought the mine. Workers removed six tons of ore worth $20,000 per ton ($640,000 in 2020) and much more was still available. The gold financed the Yadkin River project. However, on August 11, 1904, a flood caused the deaths of eight men in the mine, and it eventually shut down, not to reopen until 1998.