NC Gazetteer

Poga Mountain

Also known as: Pogey Mountain
A mountain in Avery County
N Avery County at the N end of Beech Mountain. Alt. 3,790. Local tradition is that a man was lost on the mountain for several days, and when he returned home he explained to his friends that he had "been to Pogey." He may have been using the English-dialect word "poggy," meaning boggy or sloppy, as a field in wet weather.