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Mount Olivecommunity in S Stokes County; named for a church.
Mount Olivetown in S Wayne County. Inc. 1870. Named by Benjamin Oliver, local resident, for biblical Mount of Olives. Town limits now encompass former community of Enterprise, which see. Center for marketing produce—vegetables, strawberries, and grapes; site of a large cucumber-pickle processing plant. Mount Olive College is there.
Mount Pisgahon 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
Mount Pisgahcommunity in NE Alexander County.
Mount Pisgahcommunity in N Rutherford County on Little Camp Creek.
Mount Pleasantcommunity in central Avery County.
Mount Pleasanttown in E Cabarrus County. Alt. 630. Settled about 1750 by Germans from Pennsylvania. Inc. 1859. Took its name from its elevated site between Buffalo Creek and Adams Creek. Former home of 2 Lutheran Synod church schools: Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute (male) and Mount Amoena Seminary (female).
Mount Pleasantcommunity in SE Moore County between Crains Creek and Buffalo Creek.
Mount Pleasantcommunity in SW Nash County.
Mount Pleasantcommunity in W Rockingham County served by post office beginning in 1808. Named for plantation owned by Gov. Alexander Martin and his heirs, the Henderson family.