Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Bloody Bluff |
S Sampson County overlooking Black River. |
Bloody Fork |
rises in N Yancey County and flows NW into Cane River. |
Bloody Rock |
near Cullasaja, E Macon County. A blood-colored liquid oozing from the granite rock is said by legend to mark the site where a young man of the community was murdered by a jealous rival for the affections of a local lass. |
Bloomery Swamp |
is formed by the junction of Millstone and Juniper Creeks in NW Wilson County. It flows SE into Contentnea Creek. Known prior to 1782 as Great Swamp. |
Bloomingdale |
community in S Robeson County. |
Bloomington |
See Archdale. |
Blossie Creek |
waterway off Roanoke Bay separating Off Island from Bodie Island, E Dare County. |
Blossom Swamp |
rises in S Pender County and flows NE into Trumpeters Swamp. Probably named for Samuel Blossom, a Portuguese emigrant who operated a ferry across the Northeast Cape Fear River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
Blossomtown |
community in central Macon County on a tributary of Cartoogechaye Creek. |
Blount Pocosin |
the N section of Big Pocosin in SW Beaufort County. |