Point Prospect

S Orange County in the town of Chapel Hill about ½ mi. E of the University of North Carolina campus, a very high ridge below which, as William R. Davie wrote in 1793, "the flat country spreads off… like the ocean, giving an immense hemisphere, in which the eye seems to be lost in the extent of space." The peak was owned by the university until 1894, when the U.S. Circuit Court ordered it to be sold to pay university debts. Sometimes known as Piney Prospect for the pines in the vicinity and because Point was often pronounced "pint," which evolved into Piney. Site of Gimghoul Castle.