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former gold mine in NE Cabarrus County on Little Buffalo Creek.

rises in N Franklin County and flows NE into Little Shocco Creek.

S Graham County, extends SE from Sassafras Ridge to Little Snowbird Creek. Named for isinglass or mica mined in the area.

former town in E Rowan County. Inc. and authorized to be laid out in 1795 on the Yadkin River opposite the E end of Big Island, which see. Site is about 3 mi. NE of Spencer. Intended to promote navigation on the river, the town was to be built on land owned by Edward Yarborough. Little if any development took place at the site.

connects Resolution Branch to Musselshell Creek in NW Jones County.

a channel of Chowan River flowing N of an unnamed island ¾ mi. long in W Gates County.

formerly a census precinct in what is now NW Vance County approx. 2 mi. W of the town of Williamsboro. By 1790, 107 heads of families had settled in the area.

in the NW corner of Vance County, is fed by Island Creek and Little Island Creek. It is separated from Kerr Lake by a dike that prevented the flooding of nearby tungsten mines. Extends about 5 mi. along the Granville-Vance county line. Formed about 1952 after the completion of Kerr Lake.

S central Duplin County.

former passage over the Catawba River between Catawba and Iredell Counties near the site of the dam that forms Lookout Shoals Lake, which see. Appears on maps of the Revolutionary period and on the Price map, 1808, as one of the northernmost fords over the river.