Fontana

… former community in NW Swain County, est. 1902 by employees of Montvale Lumber Co. The site is now covered by the waters of Fontana Lake, which see. Said to have been named by Mrs. George Leidy Wood, wife of an official of the lumber company, because it was "a short word, musical, easy to spell," and it reminded her of "the waterfalls that looked like fountains, leaping from ledge to ledge" in the nearby forest.