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Place Description
Black Ridge

S Yancey County between Lower Creek and Camp Creek.

Black River

See Ivanhoe.

Black River Chapel

See Delta.

Black River Township

NE Harnett County.

Black Rock

community and fishery in E Bertie County. Site of Black Rock plantation, home of Thomas Pollock Jr.

Black Swamp

rises in N Nash County and flows SE into Beaverdam Swamp.

Black Swamp Creek

rises in SE Jones County and flows S into White Oak River.

Black Wall Street

Parrish Street in Durham, center of African American entrepreneurship, ca. 1905. Black-owned businesses such as Mechanics and Farmers Bank and North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. originated there. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois chronicled the area's growth.

Black Walnut Point

E Bertie County on Chowan River between Avoca and Scotch Hall plantations.

Blackburn

community in SW Catawba County. Alt. 1,000.