Gazetteer

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Place Description
Glassmine Ridge

NE Buncombe County between Sugarhouse Cove and Corner Rock Creek.

Glassy Rock

mountain in SE Henderson County overlooking Flat Rock community. According to legend, renegades hid there during the Civil War, and money and other valuables that they concealed in the caves there were later found. Trail from Connemara, the Carl Sandburg house, leads to the overlook.

Glassy Rock Creek

rises in S Jackson County and flows S into Webb Lake.

Glassy Rock Mountain

on the SE end of Glassy Rock Ridge, S Jackson County. Alt. approx. 4,500.

Glassy Rock Ridge

S Jackson County between Rattlesnake Knob and Glassy Rock Mountain.

Glen Alpine

town in SW Burke County. Inc. 1883. Alt. 1,206. First known as Turkey Tail because of an old tree root that resembled a turkey's tail. Later called Sigmonsburg for a local storekeeper, and finally given its present name when the railroad was built.

Glen Ayre

community in E Mitchell County on Little Green Creek. A late nineteenth-century post office there was known as Little Rock Creek.

Glen Brook

community in NE Montgomery County served by post office, 1880-1906.

Glen Burnie Falls

on New Years Creek, W edge of town of Blowing Rock in S Watauga County. Height 75 ft. Part of Blowing Rock recreation area since 1906.

Glen Cove

the valley through which Glen Cove Branch flows in SE Buncombe County.