NC Gazetteer

Blennerhassett Island

A island in Madison County
S Madison County in the French Broad River opposite Marshall. The sandy island, approx. ΒΌ mi. long, probably was named for the island in the Ohio River below Parkersburg, W.Va., where Harman Blennerhassett and Aaron Burr plotted in 1805-1806 to seize an empire in the West.