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East Flat Rockformer town in central Henderson County. Alt. 2,214. Inc. 1926; charter repealed by local action, 1948, and by act of the General Assembly, 1949. Est. as a commercial adjunct to the residential community of Flat Rock, which see.
Flat Rockmountain in E central Avery County.
Flat Rockresidential community adjacent to East Flat Rock, which see, central Henderson County. Alt. 2,207. Settled by Charlestonians as summer resort. Home to the Flat Rock Playhouse, state theater of North Carolina, and Connemara, home of poet Carl Sandburg. A post office since 1838. Named for a smooth outcropping of granite that was a Cherokee Indian ceremonial ground centuries ago. Inc. 1996.
Flat Rockcommunity in W Stokes County.
Flat Rockcommunity in NE Surry County. Named for a nearby open-faced granite quarry, the largest in the world, at which work was begun in 1889.
Flat Rockcommunity in NE Vance County named for large, flat rock in old stage road.
Flat Rock Branchrises in N Nash County and flows NE into Swift Creek.
Flat Rock Creekrises in SW Wilkes County and flows SE through the corner of Yadkin County and into Iredell County, where it enters Hunting Creek. Sometimes known locally as North Hunting Creek.
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