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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Black Mountains |
range extending from the Buncombe-Yancey county line NE to the head of Bowlens Creek in S central Yancey County. Among the peaks are Mount Mitchell, Clingmans Dome, Potato Knob, and Mount Craig. Named for the dark green foliage of Fraser fir, which covers the top and sides. Known by the Cherokee Indians as See-noh-ya (dark; night). See also Appalachian Mountains. |
| Black Pine Ridge |
N Madison County between Dry Creek and Mill Creek. |
| Black Ridge |
S Yancey County between Lower Creek and Camp Creek. |
| Black River |
See Ivanhoe. |
| Black River Chapel |
See Delta. |
| Black River Township |
NE Harnett County. |
| Black Rock |
community and fishery in E Bertie County. Site of Black Rock plantation, home of Thomas Pollock Jr. |
| Black Swamp |
rises in N Nash County and flows SE into Beaverdam Swamp. |
| Black Swamp Creek |
rises in SE Jones County and flows S into White Oak River. |
| Black Wall Street |
Parrish Street in Durham, center of African American entrepreneurship, ca. 1905. Black-owned businesses such as Mechanics and Farmers Bank and North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. originated there. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois chronicled the area's growth. |
