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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
Huggins Hell

thicket of rhododendron and laurel covering between 400 and 500 acres in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Named for Irving Huggins, early settler, who was trapped there for several days while herding cattle.
Huggins Island

E Onslow County between Dudley's Island and Swansboro in White Oak River. Named for Luke Huggins. Appears as Stones Island on the Moseley map, 1733. A fort or battery erected there by Confederate forces was designed to protect Bogue Inlet and West Channel from the Union fleet; it was destroyed in 1862.
Huggins Ridge

N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a short spur extending NW from Welch Ridge between Sawbrier Ridge and Huggins Branch.
Hugh Day's Gap

NE Caldwell and W Wilkes Counties. Alt. 1,687. Named for Hugh Day, a hatter in the area in the early nineteenth century.
Hugh's Creek

See East Buies Creek.
Hughes

community in central Avery County.
Hughes Branch

rises in E Macon County and flows SW into Watauga Creek.
Hughes Creek

rises in N Lee County and flows E into Lick Creek.
Hughes Gap

W Mitchell County at the head of Cooper Branch.
Hughes Knob

W Jackson County between Bearpen Creek and Jim Creek.