community in S Robeson County.

See Archdale.

waterway off Roanoke Bay separating Off Island from Bodie Island, E Dare County.

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.

community in central Macon County on a tributary of Cartoogechaye Creek.

the N section of Big Pocosin in SW Beaufort County.

rises in central Cumberland County and flows SE into Little Cross Creek.

See Grifton.

former town in NW Martin County on the Roanoke River. Est. 1785 on the lands of Whitmel Hill (1743-97) near Hamilton, but probably never developed. A post office, Clark's Store, existed there from 1819 to 1842.

town in S Watauga and N Caldwell Counties near the head of Yadkin River. First settled in 1870; inc. 1889. Named for a peculiar rock formation rising above the Johns River valley that creates a current of air that returns to the sender light articles thrown over the void. Known as Ohlanto by the Indians and the subject of many legends. In 1927 the communities of Green Park, which see, and Mayview Park were annexed. Fort Rollins, used in the Civil War, was located there. Alt. 3,586.