In a message dated 11/1/98 9:30:22 PM Central Standard Time, Sreyb writes: << << Subj: Re: Bald Mountain & James Catheys Mill Creek Date: 11/1/98 5:54:36 AM Central Standard Time From: eichholz@norwich.edu (Alice Eichholz) To: ROWANROOTS-L@rootsweb.com North Carolina is lucky to have such a thorough place name gazetteer (THE NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER: A DICTIONARY OF TAR HELL PLACES by William S. Powell (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press). There are lots of Bald Mountains in counties which were original part of Old Rowan, but in searching for more distinctive names (such as Marlins Creek), I find it is now called Sloans Creek (p.458) with the following description: rises in w Rowan County [that would be present-day Rowan] and flows n approx. 3 miles into Kerr Creek, which see. Known first as South Fork of James Cathey's Mills Creek and later as Marlins Creek. >>