NC Gazetteer

Hobby Hole, The

A depression in Greene County and Wilson County
… a deep hole in Contentnea Creek approx. 3 mi. below Ruffin's (formerly Peacock's) Bridge SE of Stantonsburg on the Greene-Wilson county line. Traditionally reputed to be "bottomless." Its max. depth in 1923 was only 58 ft; by 1955 it had largely filled up.