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Place Description
Bonarva Canal

W Tyrrell County, flows from Lake Phelps NE into Old Canal. Known also as Magnolia Canal. Dug during antebellum era with slave labor to drain swamplands for cultivation.

Bond Creek

rises in SE Beaufort County and flows N into the mouth of South Creek at Pamlico River.

Bonds Ferry

See Pamlico River.

Bone Camp Branch

rises in S Madison County and flows SW into Bull Creek.

Bone Valley

NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Named after an early settler found the bleached bones of his long-lost cows there.

Bone Valley Creek

is formed in NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park by the junction of Roaring Creek and Defeat Branch. It flows S into Hazel Creek.

Bones Creek

rises in NW Cumberland County and flows SE and S into Little Rockfish Creek.

Boney Mill Pond

on Paget Branch in S Duplin County.

Bonlee

community in SW Chatham County. Est. 1894 and first known as Dunlap's Mill; in 1898 renamed Causey for Joshua Causey, local resident. Renamed Bonlee in 1910, supposedly for a brand of cloth. Inc. 1913; charter repealed 1936. Alt. 526.

Bonner Bay

waterway in E Pamlico County between the mouth of Spring Creek and Bay River.