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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 |
|---|---|
| Glass Rock Knob |
on the McDowell-Yancey county line. |
| Glassmine Branch |
rises in NE Buncombe County and flows SW into North Fork [Swannanoa River]. |
| Glassmine Gap |
on Little Bald Mountain, SW Macon County. |
| Glassmine Mountain |
W Transylvania County between Lamance and Beasley Creeks. Named for the fact that isinglass (mica) was mined in the vicinity. |
| Glassmine Ridge |
NE Buncombe County between Sugarhouse Cove and Corner Rock Creek. |
| Glassy Rock |
mountain in SE Henderson County overlooking Flat Rock community. According to legend, renegades hid there during the Civil War, and money and other valuables that they concealed in the caves there were later found. Trail from Connemara, the Carl Sandburg house, leads to the overlook. |
| Glassy Rock Creek |
rises in S Jackson County and flows S into Webb Lake. |
| Glassy Rock Mountain |
on the SE end of Glassy Rock Ridge, S Jackson County. Alt. approx. 4,500. |
| Glassy Rock Ridge |
S Jackson County between Rattlesnake Knob and Glassy Rock Mountain. |
| Glen Alpine |
town in SW Burke County. Inc. 1883. Alt. 1,206. First known as Turkey Tail because of an old tree root that resembled a turkey's tail. Later called Sigmonsburg for a local storekeeper, and finally given its present name when the railroad was built. |
