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Place Description
Morris Knob

S Wilkes County at the SW end of Gill Mountain.

Morris Landing

community in SW Onslow County on Stump Sound.

Morris Mountain

N Montgomery County between Bundle Mountain and Barnes Creek.

Morris Pond

on Juniper Creek, SE Lee County. Formed about 1865. Covers 25 acres; max. depth 8 ft. Formerly a millpond, now used for fishing, swimming, and boating.

Morris Run

rises in SW Beaufort County and flows NW into Chocowinity Creek.

Morrison

former community in W Iredell County on Fourth Creek near the present community of Loray. William Morrison (1704-71) settled there in 1750 and by 1752 was operating a gristmill. In an Indian attack, all buildings were burned except the mill, which was saved owing to an Indian superstition that evil would befall them if they burned a mill. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, and as Morrisons Mill as recently as 1901 on a map of the county. A cemetery with eighteenth-century tombstones marks the site.

Morrison Creek

rises in W Iredell County and flows E into Fourth Creek. Formerly known as Middle Fourth Creek.

Morrison's Tan Yard

community in SE Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1820-71.

Morristown

See Asheville.

Morrisville

town in W Wake County on Crabtree Creek. Settled 1840; chartered in 1875 and named for Jerry Morris, who owned the town site. Charter repealed in 1933. Reincorporated in 1947. Alt. 304.