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The Pools and Pool Creek Cascades

The Pools and Pool Creek Cascades are located near Chimney Rock.
"For the Broad River, which has its sources on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge, has no connection whatever with the more famous French Broad, which runs in the opposite direction [ toward New Orleans]. (1913, Morley, Margaret. The Carolina Mountains, p.98.)

"The Chimney Rock region is quite noted for its waterfalls, most of the streams that come from that part of the mountains making their escape to the levels below by long leaps down the walls.  And the Broad River Valley might be called the "Valley of Many Waters," with its long cascades and its rushing streams." (1913, Morley, Margaret. The Carolina Mountains, p. 99.)
"But one must not leave Logan's yet, not before taking that delightful walk up the [Hickorynut] creek to the Pools, a series of large, round, fabulously deep pot-holes. There are three of them, and, according to the people, one of them has no bottom, while another is one hundred feet deep, and the third, eighty feet deep.  Aside from their invisible depths, the pools are worth a visit because of the visible and charming manner in which Pool Creek comes sliding over smooth rock faces, finally to leap in a cascade into pool after pool, striking with force and whirling around the smooth stone wall of the basin.  Pool Creek has many cascades; and it is shaded by tall trees, and bordered by the beautiful growths of the region, and beset with wild flowers, in their season.  So, even were its pools of commonplace depths, one would look back with pleasure to a walk up the enchanting stream." (1913, Morley, Margaret. The Carolina Mountains, pp. 98, 99.)
"The Pools, just above the old Logan hotel or tavern in the same picturesque locality [Chimney Rock] are three circular holes from eight to fifteen feet in diameter, in the rock bed of the creek, all of which are said to be bottomless.  It is evident that they were made by the revolution of small stones on the softer surface of the creek bed, kept in constant motion by the continual flow of the creek; but they are not bottomless, nor is there any danger of suction, as swimmers disport themselves in their cool depths every summer." (1914, Arthur, John. Western North Carolina, A History, p.538.)