Rendezvous Mountain

W central Wilkes County between the heads of Purlear and Cole Creeks. Alt. 2,450. Named for the fact that militiamen from the area are believed to have gathered there to drill and that it is the traditional rendezvous site for troops that assembled before marching to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780. In 1926 Judge Thomas B. Finley and his wife gave the state 142 acres there for a state park. Now an Educational State Forest operated by the North Carolina Forest Service.