Pee Dee, also known as Pee Dee Station, is a populated place in
Anson County, North Carolina, United States, situated at an elevation of 236 feet (72 m)
AMSL
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
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. It is a former railway stop for passengers traveling on the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Pee Dee is southeast of
Lilesville, at the intersection of
North Carolina Highway 74 and
North Carolina Highway 145. The community was named after the
Pee Dee River
The Pee Dee River, also known as the Great Pee Dee River, is a river in the Carolinas of the United States. It originates in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, where its upper course, above the mouth of the Uwharrie River
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.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a school for Blacks operated at Pee Dee, known as the "Collegiate Institute for Negro Youth". The school was established and promoted by the Reverend Adam Martin Barrett. The Collegiate Institute was also known as the Collegiate and Industrial Institute and Barrett's College.
[Mary L. Medley, History of Anson County, North Carolina: 1750–1976 (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1976), page 255.]
See also
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Pee Dee, Montgomery County, North Carolina Pee Dee is an unincorporated community in southwestern Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States, located on North Carolina Highway 73. U.S. Representative and State Senator Edmund Deberry lived in Pee Dee, which was a township at that time, ...
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Pee Dee
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Populated places in Anson County, North Carolina
Populated places in North Carolina