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Place Description
Ledbetter Lake

central Richmond County on Hitchcock Creek at the community of Ledbetter, which see. Covers 800 acres.
Ledford

See Nantahala.
Ledford Branch

rises in S Cherokee County and flows NW into Nottely River.
Ledford Creek

rises in S Buncombe County and flows SE into Bent Creek.
Ledford Gap

S Clay County near the headwaters of Hothouse Branch.
Ledge Bald

on Haywood-Swain county line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Balsam Mountain near lat. 35°38'35" N., long. 83°12'05" W. Alt. 5,175.
Ledge Creek

rises in SW Granville County just NW of town of Stem, flows S through Creedmoor Lake W of town of Creedmoor, and empties into Neuse River at Durham-Wake county line. Appears as Ledge of Rocks Creek on the Collet map, 1770, and others.
Ledge Gap

on Haywood-Swain county line between Beech Gap and Pin Oak Gap.
Ledge of Rocks Creek

See Ledge Creek.
Ledger

community in central Mitchell County on Snow Creek. Said to have been named by the Post Office Department because of a report submitted in a ledger by a local resident named Phillips. His record of mail sent and received in the community through another post office resulted in the establishment of a post office there. The "Good Will" Free Library, opened in Ledger in 1886 through the efforts of Charles Hallet Wing, is said to have been the first free public library in the state and the third county library in the United States. See also Wing.