Gazetteer

E Haywood County on Glade Mountain. Alt. approx. 4,530.

E Henderson County, extends NE from the W side of Big Hungry River. William Mills built a crude fort there soon after moving to the area, and it served as a haven for pioneer settlers in time of threat from the Indians. It was there, by tradition, that Polly Stepp, firing through a porthole, struck an Indian and exclaimed: "I've hit the Big Chief, darned if I ain't hit the Big Chief!" Remains of the old foundation logs can still be seen.

mountain peak on the Buncombe-Yancey county line at the E end of Big Andy Ridge. Alt. 5,715.

NW point of Cedar Island in NE Carteret County between West Bay and Pamlico Sound.

a tidal creek on the Core Sound side of Core Banks near Drum Inlet, NE Carteret County.

a point of land extending into the mouth of Neuse River in the most N part of Carteret County.

See Archie's Point.

point of land extending into Cape Fear River at its junction with Northeast Cape Fear River opposite Wilmington, W New Hanover County. Before the Civil War, it was a terminal for river traffic to and from Fayetteville and Averasboro. Named for Peter Mallett (b. 1744), Revolutionary leader. See also Peters Point.

S Orange County in the town of Chapel Hill about ½ mi. E of the University of North Carolina campus, a very high ridge below which, as William R. Davie wrote in 1793, "the flat country spreads off… like the ocean, giving an immense hemisphere, in which the eye seems to be lost in the extent of space." The peak was owned by the university until 1894, when the U.S. Circuit Court ordered it to be sold to pay university debts. Sometimes known as Piney Prospect for the pines in the vicinity and because Point was often pronounced "pint," which evolved into Piney. Site of Gimghoul Castle.

rises in NE Ashe County and flows NE into North Fork New River.