Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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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. |