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Place Description
Lobelia

community in SE Moore County.
Loch Lily

lake on Storys Creek, NW Person County. Formed prior to 1928 and known first as Barnetts Pond, later as Lake Chub, and finally by its present name. Covers 94 acres; max. depth 12 ft.
Locke Mills

See Forest Hill.
Locke Township

central Rowan County. Named for Gen. Matthew Locke (1730-1801), statesman and patriot, who lived there.
Locketts Island

a clay loam island approx. 1 mi. long in Roanoke River, W Northampton County.
Lockhart Mill

See Hoggard's Mill.
Lockport

community in SE Chatham County on Deep River W of Moncure. An earlier post office there was known as Lockville. Site of locks of Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Co.; Progress Energy has a small power plant there that uses the lock canal as a mill race. At Ramsey's Mill there, following the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781, the British general, Lord Cornwallis, built a bridge over Deep River.
Locks Creek

rises in E central Cumberland County and flows SW and S into Cape Fear River. See also Lords Creek.
Lockville

See Lockport.
Lockwoods Folly Inlet

between Holden Beach and Long Beach, through which Lockwoods Folly River flows into Long Bay of the Atlantic Ocean, S central Brunswick County. Appears on the Ogilby map, 1671. The name is derived from a man named Lockwood, who built a fine boat up Lockwoods Folly River but discovered that it was too large to float into the Atlantic through the inlet. He was forced to abandon his boat, and it eventually fell to pieces. Frequently in the seventeenth century, however, the word "folly" was used in the sense of the French folie (delight; favorite abode), and it formed a part of the name of English estates. Lockwoods Folly River, which see, has been described as the second-most-beautiful river in North Carolina, and it may have been the "delight" or "favorite abode" of an early settler named Lockwood. See also Longs Delight.