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Place Description
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.