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Place Description
Eagle Knob

on the Jackson-Macon county line. Alt. 4,500.

Eagle Mills

See Eagle.

Eagle Mills

community in NE Iredell County. Mill operated by the Eagle family there burned by Stoneman's raiders, 1865, later rebuilt. A grain mill is now operated on Hunting Creek at the site.

Eagle Mills Township

NE Iredell County.

Eagle Rock

town in E Wake County. A printing press operated there as early as 1854. Named for a rock on which an eagle fell when shot by Thomas Richard Debnum, around whose home the town developed. Inc. 1911, when lumber industry thrived there. Long inactive in municipal affairs. Alt. 326.

Eagle Rock

mountain on Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line between Pecks Corner and Copper Gap. Alt. 5,950-6,000.

Eagle Rock Cove

valley of Eagle Rock Creek, NE Buncombe County.

Eagle Rock Creek

rises in Great Craggy Mountains, NE Buncombe County, and flows SW into Beetree Reservoir.

Eagle Springs

community in W Moore County. Settled about 1890. Site of a mineral spring, it probably was named for the Eagle family, which settled in the vicinity in the eighteenth century. Alt. 668.

Eagle Swamp

rises in N Lenoir County and flows SE into Contentnea Creek.