NC Gazetteer

Green River

A river in Henderson County, Polk County and Rutherford County
… rises in SW Henderson County and flows NE into Polk County, where it turns SE to enter Broad River on the Polk-Rutherford county line. Lake Summit in Henderson County and Lake Adger in Polk County are on Green River. The Peter Guice Bridge on Interstate 26 across the river is the second-highest bridge in the eastern United States after the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia.