NC Gazetteer
Pores Knob
Also known as: Mt. Night, Mount Night
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knob
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Wilkes County
S Wilkes County, the highest peak in the Brushy Mountains. Alt. 2,680. Named for Moses Poore, an eighteenth-century resident. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Mt. Night. See also Brushy Mountains.
