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rises in S Yadkin County and flows NE into South Deep Creek.

N Haywood County between Cold Springs Creek and Tom Hall Branch.

N Avery County.

N Watauga County S and W of Norris Fork.

See Aulander.

town in NE Iredell County. Originally known as Harmony Hill because of the "protracted" or "harmony" meetings held there beginning about 1850. Inc. 1874 as Harmony Hill Camp Ground; name changed to Harmony in 1927. A late nineteenth-century academy there became the first high school in the county, 1907. Alt. 993.

See Harmony.

SW Buncombe County SW of Yellow Gap.

community in S Harnett County. Gravel deposits are present.

was formed in 1855 from Cumberland County. Located in the E section of the state, it is bounded by Chatham, Cumberland, Hoke, Moore, Lee, Wake, and Johnston Counties. It was named for Cornelius Harnett (1723-81), Revolutionary War patriot, president of the Provincial Council and the Council of Safety, and delegate to the Continental Congress. Area: 607 sq. mi. County seat: Lillington, with an elevation of 325 ft. Townships are Anderson Creek, Averasboro, Barbecue, Black River, Buckhorn, Duke, Grove, Hectors Creek, Johnsonville, Lillington, Neills Creek, Stewarts Creek, and Upper Little River. Produces tobacco, corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, cotton, sweet potatoes, poultry, hogs, livestock, pumpkins, mobile homes, concrete products, lumber, textiles, sand, and gravel.