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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 Mountain |
town in SE Buncombe County. Inc. 1893. Known earlier as Grey Eagle. Named for the Black Mountain range by S. Dougherty, in whose home the first post office was est. Alt. 2,395. Summer resort. Produces lumber. Black Mountain College operated nearby, 1933-56. |
| Black Mountain |
See Mount Chapman. |
| Black Mountain |
N Transylvania County between Clawhammer Cove and Bear Pen Branch. |
| Black Mountain |
NE Rutherford County at the head of Brier Creek. Alt. 2,614. |
| Black Mountain |
SW Randolph County S of Mill Creek. |
| Black Mountain |
See Mount Hardy. |
| Black Mountain |
at the head of Black Mountain Branch in S Macon County. Alt. 3,735. |
| Black Mountain |
on the Jackson-Haywood county line. An attempt was made to change the name to Browning Peak in honor of R. Getty Browning, state highway location engineer, but it was not accepted locally. Alt. 6,275. |
| Black Mountain |
a peak on the SE end of Laurel Mountain in NW Henderson County. Alt. 3,952. |
| Black Mountain |
N Jackson County, extends NE from Tuckasegee River between Parker Knob and Fern Mountain. |
