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Place Description
Pioneer Mills

community in S Cabarrus County. Gold and copper mines operated there from the 1850s until 1931.

Piper Gap

See Lambsburg.

Piper Hill

SE Currituck County, former sand hill on S Currituck Banks. Erosion has now worn the hill down to beach level.

Pipes Branch

rises in E Cherokee County in the Valley River Mountains and flows S of Tibb Ridge into Peachtree Creek.

Pipetrack Gap

S Macon County between Thomas Knob and the North Carolina-Georgia state line.

Pipkins Crossroads

See Savages Crossroads.

Pireway

town in S Columbus County near Wacca maw River. Inc. 1883, but long in active in municipal affairs. Post office operated, 1855-1933, was known as Pireway Ferry after 1882.

Pisgah

community in S Randolph County. Named for nearby Pisgah Church. A post office est. there 1896, closed 1953.

Pisgah Creek

rises in E Haywood County and flows NW into East Fork Pigeon River.

Pisgah Forest

community in E central Transylvania County near the confluence of Davidson and French Broad Rivers. Includes the old communities of Davidson River and Ecusta. Produces lumber.