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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Bottomless Pools |
in Pool Creek, SW Rutherford County at Lake Lure. Formed by whirlpool action of the rushing water in weaker sections of the huge granite rock over which it flows. Three pools now exist, and a fourth apparently is being formed. In 1947 a geologist who studied them reported that the pools may vary in age from 100,000 to a million years. |
| Boulding Creek |
rises in central Granville County and flows SE into Tar River. |
| Boushell |
community in E central Wake County. |
| Bowan's Crossing |
See Icard. |
| Bowans Gap |
SW Cherokee County at the NE end of Angelico Mountain. |
| Bowden Mountain |
E Davidson County between the headwaters of Flat Swamp Creek and Fourmile Branch. |
| Bowden Pond |
on the head of Bear Swamp in W Duplin County. |
| Bowdens |
community in NW Duplin County. Alt. 167. Settled prior to 1872, inc. 1911, but no longer active in municipal affairs. Named for Capt. James Bowden, who owned land in the vicinity. Railroad name is Bowden. |
| Bowditch |
community in E Yancey County on Ayles Creek. |
| Boween River |
rises in S Cleveland County and flows SW into South Carolina, where it enters Broad River. |
