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.