Gazetteer

two knobs S of Horsepasture River, SW Transylvania County.

city in E Nash and W Edgecombe Counties. Est. 1816; inc. 1867. Named for the rocky mounds and ledges on the site near the falls of the Tar River. Home of North Carolina Wesleyan College. Produces tobacco, furniture, and fabricated metals. Alt. 121.

former township in W central Edgecombe County, now township no. 12.

E central Watauga County between Rocky Branch and Rocky Knob Creek.

central Cherokee County, extends NE from Nottely River to Hiwassee River near Murphy.

community in S Pender County. Alt. 39. Inc. 1905; charter repealed 1945. Name applied to the area by Barbadian explorers in 1663 for an unusual outcropping of rock near Lane's Ferry in the otherwise flat country. The community was settled in the late eighteenth century. Clayton Hall, home of Francis Clayton, native of Scotland and member of the Wilmington Safety Committee, 1774, was there. Produces lumber. See also Lillington County.

S central Pender County.

between Jim Creek and The Flatwoods in SW Henderson County.

rises in SE Iredell County near Mooresville and flows S along the Cabarrus-Mecklenburg county line for a short distance; across Cabarrus to the Cabarrus-Stanly county line, which it forms for a short distance; and to the Stanly-Union and Anson-Stanly county lines, which it forms before entering Pee Dee River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770.

community and former resort in S Stanly County. Mineral springs there said to have been known to Indians as the "place of healing waters." Hotel and places of amusement in operation from the 1830s until 1920s.