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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 |
|---|---|
| Blackwater River |
rises in Virginia and flows SW into North Carolina, where it joins the Nottoway River a short distance S of the Virginia line on the Hertford-Gates county line to form the Chowan River. The name appears on the Comberford map, 1657. |
| Blackwater Run |
rises in S Rowan County and flows S into N Cabarrus County, where it enters Dutch Buffalo Creek. The last Indians in Cabarrus County lived along the stream. |
| Blackwell |
community in NW Caswell County. A post office operated there, 1830-1909. A tobacco factory also formerly existed there. |
| Blackwell Gap |
central Cherokee County near the middle of Bates Mountain. |
| Blackwell Mountain |
a peak on Bates Mountain, central Cherokee County. |
| Blackwell Ridge |
SW Macon County between Long Branch and Curtis Creek. |
| Blackwood |
community in S Orange County. Alt. 487. |
| Blackwood Creek |
rises in central Gaston County near the SW limits of West Gastonia and flows S into Crowders Creek. |
| Blackwood Mountain |
S Orange County between Mountain Creek and Old Field Creek. |
| Bladen County |
was formed in 1734 from New Hanover County. Located in the SE section of the state, it is bounded by Sampson, Pender, Columbus, Robeson, and Cumberland Counties. It was named for Martin Bladen (1680-1746), English soldier and politician who was commissioner of trade and plantations, 1717-46. Area: 891 sq. mi. County seat: Elizabethtown, elevation 121 ft. Townships are Abbotts, Bethel, Bladenboro, Brown Marsh, Carvers Creek, Central, Colly, Cypress Creek, Elizabethtown, French's Creek, Hollow, Lake Creek, Turnbull, White Oak, and Whites Creek. Produces turkeys, chickens, tobacco, corn, soybeans, oats, peanuts, grapes, blueberries, hogs, dairy livestock, wood products, and sand for concrete. |
