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Broad SwampW Beaufort County, is the lower course of Hall Swamp. It flows S into Pamlico River.
Broadbay TownshipS Forsyth County. Named for Broadbay, Mass. (now Waldoboro, Maine), the former home of the first settlers of Friedland, a community in the township. See also Friedland.
Broadneck SwampSE Bertie County. Named for its location in a neck of the Roanoke River. See also Town Swamp.
Broadwaytown in E Lee County. Inc. 1907. Settled in the 1870s and named for a broad, level opening in the vast pine forest that covered the area.
Broadway GapS Macon County between Little Scaly Mountain and Fork Mountain.
Brockcommunity in N Graham County on Sawyer Creek.
Brock Knobon French Broad River in W Henderson County.
Brodieformer community in S Warren County on Shocco Creek. A post office was est. there in 1879; apparently the community died out after the post office was discontinued in 1913.
Brogdencommunity in S Wayne County.
Brogden TownshipS Wayne County. Named for the family of Curtis Hooks Brogden (1816-1901), governor of North Carolina and a native of the county.