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High Rock Lake is a reservoir located on the Yadkin River in central North Carolina in the counties of Davidson and Rowan.Built in 1926-27 by the Tallassee Power Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), the lake is the northernmost of a series of four hydroelectric projects designed at the time to support the company’s Badin Works, a large aluminum ...
SC 49 at the South Carolina state line: SR 49/SR 96 at the Virginia state line 1934: current NC 50 — — South Carolina state line: Virginia state line 1921: 1934 First form; replaced by US 1: NC 50: 164.2: 264.3 Florida Avenue in Topsail Beach: US 15/NC 56 in Creedmoor: 1935: current Second form NC 51 — — Ellerbe: Wadeville
Harris Lake, or Shearon Harris Reservoir, [1] is a reservoir in New Hill, North Carolina, [2] approximately 20 miles southwest of Raleigh, the state capitol. Lying 220 ft (67 m) above sea level, the lake covers 4,100 acres (17 km 2 ) in southwestern Wake County and southeastern Chatham County .
North Carolina Highway 210 leads northeast 18 miles (29 km) to Lillington and southeast as Murchison Road 10 miles (16 km) to downtown Fayetteville. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town of Spring Lake has a total area of 23.2 square miles (60.2 km 2 ), of which 23.1 square miles (59.7 km 2 ) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 ...
New Holland [1] is a community in Hyde County, North Carolina, located along the southern shore of Lake Mattamuskeet.Between 1911 and 1934, three private investment companies partnered with the public Mattamuskeet Drainage District to build the world's largest capacity pumping plant and dredge 130 miles (210 km) of large navigable canals to drain 50,000-acre (200 km 2) Lake Mattamuskeet for ...
Lake Phelps is North Carolina's second largest natural lake. It has a surface area of 16,600 acres (67 km 2), [2] and is located primarily in Washington County on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula between the Albemarle Sound and the Pamlico Sound. The easternmost part of the lake extends into Tyrrell County.
Lake Waccamaw is a fresh water lake located in Columbus County in North Carolina.It is the largest of the natural Carolina Bay lakes. [2] Although bay trees (Magnolia virginiana L., Gordonia lasianthus Ellis, and Persea) are present within many Carolina Bays, [3] the term "bay" does not refer to the trees but comes instead from an early science publication by Glenn (1895), who used the word ...
Lake Norman is an artificial fresh water lake in southwest North Carolina. The largest lake in the state, it was created between 1959 and 1964 [1] as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy. Located in Iredell County, 15 miles north of Charlotte, Lake Norman State Park boasts the region's popular mountain biking trail system.