Pinnacle, North Carolina

Pinnacle is an unincorporated community in southwestern Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately five miles SSE of the town of Pilot Mountain, near Pilot Mountain State Park.

History

The town was originally known as Culler, named for Emanuel W. Culler who owned the land on which a railroad station was built. The present name was adopted in 1894. Pinnacle was incorporated in 1901 but the charter was repealed in 1903. [Powell, William S. "The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places", Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968.]

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* [http://southern-railway.railfan.net/ay/explore.htm Atlantic & Yadkin Railway]