NC Gazetteer

Bottomless Pools

A geological formation in Rutherford County
… in Pool Creek, SW Rutherford County at Lake Lure. Formed by whirlpool action of the rushing water in weaker sections of the huge granite rock over which it flows. Three pools now exist, and a fourth apparently is being formed. In 1947 a geologist who studied them reported that the pools may vary in age from 100,000 to a million years.