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Place Description
Riders Creek Community

See Levels.

Ridge

See South Gastonia.

Ridge Creek

rises in NW Alamance County and flows SE into Haw River.

Ridge Spring

See Scuffletown.

Ridge's Mountain

W Randolph County between Uwharrie River and Caraway Creek; a long, rather low, ridge.

Ridgecrest

community in SE Buncombe County. Alt. 2,530. Southern Baptist summer assembly grounds are there.

Ridgepole Mountain

S Macon County between Little Ridgepole Mountain and Gulf Branch. Alt. 5,008.

Ridgeville

community in SE Caswell County. Known as Pea Ridge until 1875, when the present name was adopted for the ridge on which it is located. Alt. 750.

Ridgeway

community in W Warren County. Alt. 422. Inc. 1869; charter repealed 1879. Grew up around a series of inns, the first of which was Colers Ordinary, shown on the Collet map, 1770. By 1800 Charles Marshall had a tavern there; portions of the original building still exist in a local dwelling. In 1816 John Paschall operated a tavern there, and the community was known as Paschalls, the name under which it appears on the MacRae map, 1833. The present name was used when a post office was est. there in 1839; it is said to be derived from the ridge on the N edge of the community on which a railway was built. After the Civil War, a development company induced immigrants from Germany, Alsace, France, Switzerland, and England to settle there.

Riegelwood

community in NE Columbus County near the Cape Fear River. Developed around the Riegel Paper Corporation after it began production in 1951.