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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.

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Place Description
Holly Grove Township

NE Gates County.
Holly Meadow Branch

rises in central Cabarrus County and flows S into Coddle Creek.
Holly Neck

See Beasley.
Holly Point

peninsula extending from W Goose Creek Island, NE Pamlico County, into Goose Creek at the mouth of Dixon Creek.
Holly Ridge

a raised strip of ground in Dismal Swamp, SE Gates County.
Holly Shelter Bay

a pocosin in E Pender County bounded on the NE by Shaken Creek, on the W by Northeast Cape Fear River, and on the S by Trumpeter Swamp. It is about 10 mi. long and 7 mi. wide. Appears as Holly Schelter Precoson on the Collet map, 1770 (although mistakenly applied to Angola Bay), and on the Price map, 1808. Holly Shelter Wildlife Management Area, 48,470 acres, is operated by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission; bear and deer abound.
Holly Shelter Creek

receives the waters of Angola, Shaken, and Moores Creeks; Cane Branch; and other streams in NE Pender County and flows W approx. 30 mi. into Northeast Cape Fear River. Called Shelter River in a 1913 report by the U.S. Chief of Engineers. Appears as Holly Schelter Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
Holly Springs

community in E Carteret County on Newport River.
Holly Springs Township

SW Wake County.
Holly Township

NE Pender County.