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Place Description
Bolden Branch

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Junaluska Creek.

Bolick Branch

See Anthony Bolick Branch.

Bolin Creek

rises in SE Orange County on the S slope of Bald Mountain and flows SE, on N side of the town of Chapel Hill, to join Booker Creek in forming Little Creek. Appears as Bollings Creek on a map of Chapel Hill made in 1792 by John Daniel. The Bolling family settled in Orange County in the eighteenth century.

Bolin Knob

mountain at junction of Burke-McDowell-Rutherford county line. Alt. approx. 2,200. Named for a family living in the area by the late eighteenth century.

Bolivia

town in E central Brunswick County. Settled in the late nineteenth century and inc. in 1911. Alt. 40. County seat located nearby in 1978.

Bollens Run

rises in S Granville County and flows S into Tar River.

Bollers Knob

central Henderson County at the head of Findley Creek.

Bolling

community in N Halifax County a short distance W of Roanoke Rapids.

Bolling Creek

See Bolin Creek.

Bolton

town in NW Columbus County. Settled 1889. Inc. 1915. Named for Bolton Lumber Company. Alt. 66.