Horace: I saw your great reply on the Duplin places and would like to include you in on a mystery which is baffling a few people. Perhaps Mr Sykes' book you quote will help. My BUTLER ancestors owned land at the confluence of Roundabout Branch and Wateringhole Branch which then flows into Cypress Creek. This is evidently near the old Humphrey PO and the branches are visible from Deep Bottom Rd just east of where James Rd deadends into Deep Bottom. The land stretched back to what is now Cypress Creek Rd which runs down into Pender Co to NC 50. Now the mystery part: In the current Delorme Company NC atlas book, Cypress Creek Rd is shown as "Blacksmith Shop Rd". I have talked to most everybody down there I can think of - Dallas Herring, Kellon Maready, a 95-year old whose daughter runs the convenience store in Pin Hook, state hiway dept, and even had the Duplin RoD/Tax Office looking the last time I was in Kenansvile in April. No one can come up with any info about that road ever being called Blacksmith Shop Rd. Delorme says they got the info from the state or county. I'm sure they didn't just pull it out of thin air. I have a 1930 map of Duplin roads but it has no road names. The reason I'm nitpicking at this is that my Elijah BUTLER, the last BUTLER to own that property, was a blacksmith, as was one of his sons. Horace, if you, or anyone on the list, have any info on this road name, I would certainly like to hear about it. There is a possibility that another road, some feet/yards removed from the current road, was Blacksmith Shop Rd, but there would have to be a map or record somewhere for Delorme to use that name in their atlas. Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem