Pee Dee is an unincorporated community in southwestern Montgomery County, North Carolina, United States, located on North Carolina Highway 73.[1][2] U.S. Representative and State Senator Edmund Deberry lived in Pee Dee, which was a township at that time, until his death in 1859.[3]
The community was named for the Pee Dee people, who built the nearby Town Creek Indian Mound.
References
- ↑ "Pee Dee". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ↑ Montgomery County, North Carolina (Map). North Carolina Department of Transportation.
- ↑ "DEBERRY, Edmund". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
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