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Place Description
Hogback Mountain

W Madison County between Spring Creek and Meadow Fork.

Hogback Mountain

E Macon County between Walnut and Buck Creeks.

Hogback Ridge

S Buncombe County between Redmans Cove and Buckeye Cove.

Hogback Township

SW Transylvania County.

Hogback Valley

community in W Transylvania County near Lake Toxaway.

Hogeye Branch

rises in NW Buncombe County and flows NE into Sandymush Creek.

Hogg's Folly

name formerly applied to a tract of land in W New Hanover County adjoining Wilmington on the n. John Hogg, in the eighteenth century, by means of a ditch, enclosed a tract of land on which he intended to establish a market garden. Evidently, failure of the project produced the name.

Hoggard Mill Creek

rises in central Bertie County and flows SW into Cashie River. Appears as Wills Quarter Creek on the Collet map, 1770, a name that was in use as late as 1882.

Hoggard Swamp

S Hertford County. Wiccacon River rises there.

Hoggard's Mill

2 mi. N of Windsor in SE Bertie County on Hoggard Mill Creek. The large pond there was the site of Lockhart Mill according to the Collet map, 1770. The surrounding community was known as Wolfington and was the county seat from 1722 until it was moved to Windsor in 1774. By 1833 the site bore its present name. See also Hoggard Mill Creek.