There is the south carolina reference: Carolina, geographically, covers three very different topographies. We call them the Blue Ridge or Mountains, the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. Pee Dee is a continuation of the Piedmont which runs in a diagonal stripe from Virginia, through the Northern Heartland and Southern Heartland of North Carolina, through the Pee Dee and Santee Cooper districts and on into Georgia. While many of us weren't too thrilled with geography in school, the results of the effect this geography has had on the development of the Carolinas is thrilling indeed. Pee Dee gets its name from the mighty Pee Dee River. (In North Carolina this same river is named the Yadkin River.) Dropping almost one thousand feet from the North-South Carolina border to Winyah Bay at Georgetown, the Pee Dee has been responsible for much of the successful development of the area over the last 150 years and, now, largely because of a series of dams, it has created a recreational paradise.