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Place Description
Cole Gap

SE Macon County W of Houston Branch and approx. 3 mi. N of town of Highlands.

Cole Gap

SE Cherokee County at the headwaters of John Mason Branch.

Cole Gap Mountain

W central Stokes County between Indian and Neatman Creeks.

Cole Mountain

E Macon County at the head of Houston Branch.

Cole Mountain Gap

at the head of Skitty Creek in E Macon County. Alt. 4,100.

Coleman

community in S McDowell County near Old Fort; former station on Western North Carolina Railroad.

Coleman Branch

rises in W Johnston County and flows SW into Black Creek.

Coleman Creek

rises in S Clay County and flows E into Hyatt Mill Creek.

Coleman Gap

on the Clay-Macon county line. The Appalachian Trail passes through the gap.

Colerain

town in NE Bertie County. Settled by 1700; inc. 1794. Named by its founder, John Campbell, for his hometown of Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland. The post office, est. in 1818, dropped the final letter of the name in the mid-nineteenth century. Cockerne Ferry across the Chowan River N of the site of Colerain appears on the Collet map, 1770, but it apparently ceased operation by 1808.