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Place Description
Great Marsh Point

See Bells Point.

Great Mountain

NE Henderson County.

Great Neck Landing

E Onslow County on Queens Creek; more recently known as Reed's Landing.

Great Pee Dee River

See Pee Dee River.

Great Pisgah

See Mount Pisgah.

Great Pond

in the NW part of Hog Island on the S side of Pamlico Sound, NE Carteret County.

Great Sandy Run Pocosin

W Onslow County between Shelter Swamp and Sandy Run Swamp.

Great Shell Rock

See North Rock.

Great Smoky Mountains

are a part of the Appalachian Mountains, which see, and lie along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. Clingmans Dome, at 6,642 ft., is the highest peak. The first written reference to the name Smoky is probably that found in the act of cession, passed in 1789 by the General Assembly of North Carolina, which, in describing the boundary of North Carolina and what is now Tennessee, stated: "thence along the highest ridge of the said mountain to the place where it is called Great Iron or Smoky Mountain." See also Bald Mountains.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

lies in portions of Haywood and Swain Counties, N.C., and Blount, Cocke, and Sevier Counties, Tenn. Establishment authorized by Congress in 1926 was the culmination of activity for the purpose beginning in the 1880s. Administered by the National Park Service since 1931. Contains approx. 461,000 acres. Has campgrounds, museums, restorations, nature trails, and other features of interest, including a variety of wild animals, birds, and plants. Clingmans Dome, alt. 6,642, the highest point in the park, has an observation tower.