Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Looking Glass Creek |
rises in N Transylvania County E of Bennett Gap on the Haywood-Transylvania county line and flows S into Davidson River. Located in Pisgah National Forest. |
Looking Glass Falls |
N Transylvania County on Looking Glass Creek about ½ mi. upstream from its mouth on Davidson River. The falls are 85 ft. high. Located in Pisgah National Forest. |
Looking Glass Rock |
N Transylvania County on the SE end of Seniard Ridge in Pisgah National Forest. Named because the huge rock face of the mountain glistens like a giant mirror. |
Lookoff Gap |
SE Buncombe County near Flat Top in the Swannanoa Mountains. |
Lookout Bight |
a bay in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the S end of Shackleford and Core Banks in SE Carteret County in connection with a stone breakwater started before World War I but never completed. |
Lookout Bight Channel |
See Barden Inlet. |
Lookout Knob |
NE Catawba County. |
Lookout Mountain |
central Buncombe County between Woodfin and Asheville. |
Lookout Point |
the S tip of Cedar Island extending into the waters of Core Sound in NE Carteret County. |
Lookout Shoals Lake |
on Catawba River, bounded by Iredell and Alexander Counties on the N and Catawba County on the s. Formed by a dam constructed in 1915 by Duke Power Co. Covers 1,270 acres. Source of hydroelectric power; fishing, boating, and camping. See also Island Ford. |