The Legend of Peter Dromgoole Peter was a law student from Lawrenceville, Virginia, who had entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1831, when it was only a tiny college of five buildings. He had fallen desperately in love with a young girl named Fanny who lived in the village of Chapel Hill. They often had secret meetings in the quiet seclusion of the woods near Piney Prospect where Gimghoul Castle was later built. Near the castle door lies a huge boulder that some say marks the hurried grave of Peter Dromgoole. The dark reddish-brown stains on the rock are said to be from Peter's blood as he lay dying from a gunshot wound.

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