Goldsboro Cooling Pond

… in W central Wayne County about 5 mi. W of county seat. Impounded in 1961 to cover 575 acres, with max. depth of 15 ft. and a shoreline of 4.6 mi. Used to provide supplementary cooling for the Goldsboro Steam Electric Generating Plant and named for same. Lies in a looping meander of Neuse River (though its water level is as much as 22 ft. above that of the river), and its water covers the site of an old Quaker meetinghouse. The upper meander loop forms an area known as Quaker Neck; the lower meander loop was known as The Roundabout in the 1830s.