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Place Description
Brooksdale

community in central Person County. Named for the Brooks family, local landowners and merchants.

Brookston

community in E Vance County. Post office est. in 1882.

Broom Straw Mountain

E Madison County between Paint Fork and Crooked Creek.

Broomfield Swamp Creek

rises in SE Beaufort County and flows E into South Creek.

Browders Branch

rises in N Columbus County and flows SW into West Prong Creek.

Brower Township

SE Randolph County.

Brower's Mill

(or Mills), former community and post office on Fork Creek in SE Randolph County. A post office operated there from 1828, when Alfred Brower was postmaster, until 1910. The name appears on a map of 1919 but apparently is not found after that date.

Brown

community in S Randolph County served by post office, 1879-1914. Known as Brown's Store until 1895.

Brown Branch

rises in N Buncombe County near Carter Mountain and flows SW into Ivy Creek.

Brown Cove

E Haywood County between Medford Cove and Sorrells Cove.