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town in S Iredell County. Inc. 1875, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Settled prior to the American Revolution and took its name from the home of Rufus Reid, which Reid had named Mount Mourne for the mountain in Ireland. At Torrence's Tavern there, Lt. Col. Tarleton's British cavalry routed a force of American militia, February 2, 1781. Crowfield Academy, an early classical school about a mi. s, was est. 1760 and closed by the time of the Revolution.

See Nebo.

See Pores Knob.

E Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, lat. 35°30'20" N., long. 83°20'15" W.

community in S Stokes County; named for a church.

on the Buncombe-Haywood county line NW of Little Pisgah Mountain. Alt. 5,721. Also sometimes known as Big Pisgah and Great Pisgah. View from its top includes points in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Reached by U.S. Forest Service trail from the Blue Ridge Parkway at Pisgah Inn. Named for the biblical mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land. Known by the Indians as El-see-toss

community in central Avery County.

rises in E Randolph County and flows SW into Sandy Creek.

extends from E Onslow County into White Oak River about 20 ft. above the water. Named for the pre-Revolutionary plantation of Emanuel Jones. Also known as Montford Point, which see, in recent years.

former township in E Cabarrus County, now township no. 8.