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Place Description
Lonesome Mountain

N Madison County on Big Laurel Creek.

Lonesome Valley

See Henderson.

Long Acre

an elevated area of clay loam extending S from the head of Conaby Creek in W Washington County to Pungo Creek SE of the community of Pinetown in N central Beaufort County. The ridge is broken at the Tare-over in SW Washington County by Van Swamp. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. See also Tare-over.

Long Acre Township

N central Beaufort County. See also Acre.

Long Arm Mountain

NW Burke County. Alt. 4,350. Highest point in county.

Long Arm Ridge

S Yancey County, extends SE between Devils Den and Laurel Branch.

Long Bay

in the Atlantic Ocean off the SE coast of North Carolina and NE South Carolina from Winyah Bay on the S to Cape Fear on the n. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733.

Long Beach

a section of outer beach in SE Brunswick County on the Atlantic Ocean W of Caswell Beach and E of Lockwoods Folly Inlet. Long Beach, a town there, was inc. 1955. A summer resort.

Long Bottoms

an area of approx. 50 acres of level old-field land between 2 mountains in SW Graham County on Snowbird Creek.

Long Branch

rises near the E border of Vance County and flows NE into W Warren County, where it enters Matthews Creek.