Traphill

… community in N Wilkes County E of Little Sandy Creek. Area settled by 1775. In 1833 a town to be named Johnsonville (for an invalid Revolutionary War veteran wounded at Kings Mountain, Capt. Samuel Johnson, who died the next year) was authorized to be laid out at Trap Hill but never developed. A post office to serve the community was est. there in 1837 and named Trap Hill for hunter William Blackburn's rail-pen snare, which he frequently set on a nearby hill to catch wild turkeys.