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Place Description
Bizzell Millpond

E Wayne County on Walnut Creek. Site of the Dobbs County courthouse, jail, and stocks from sometime after 1758 until 1779. After the formation of Wayne County in 1779, the county court met variously on Little River. The old courthouse, jail, and stocks were sold to Col. William McKinne. The McKinne heirs sold the property to Elijah Bizzell of Duplin County, who moved there and erected a mill in 1839.

Black Ankle

community in N Cleveland County.

Black Bald

S Macon County at the head of Dry Branch. Alt. approx. 5,100.

Black Balsam Knob

S Haywood County between the headwaters of Yellowstone Prong and Flat Laurel Creek.

Black Branch

rises in SW Duplin County and flows NE into Rockfish Creek.

Black Brothers

former name of two peaks approx. 1 mi. N of Mount Mitchell, S Yancey County. Renamed Mount Craig and Big Tom, which see, in 1947.

Black Camp Gap

on the Haywood-Swain county line near the head of Bunches Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Balsam Mountain. A log-house camp was built there for the use of cattle rangers and hunters. A forest fire partially burned the camp, burning off the bark and charring the logs of the cabins. Later campers lodging there got themselves black from contact with the burnt logs, hence the name Black Camp. Alt. 4,492.

Black Creek

rises in E Rutherford County SW of Hollis and flows SE into Hinton Creek.

Black Creek Swamp

appears on the Collet map, 1770, as a fork of East Mingo Branch, which see, lying completely in modern Harnett County between Black River and East Mingo Branch. The particular fork is no longer named on maps.

Black Creek Township

S Wilson County.