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Place Description
Cox Mill

See Mill Grove.

Cox Millpond

on the Johnston-Wayne county line on Mill Branch, just before its confluence with Mill Creek. Named for an early Quaker family of Wayne County.

Cox Point

extends from E Onslow County into White Oak River.

Cox Store

community in E Polk County between Whiteoak Creek and Green River. Alt. 868.

Cox's Falls

formerly rapids in Neuse River in SW Wayne County but now submerged by Goldsboro Cooling Pond. Mentioned as early as 1819 in a survey of the rivers of North Carolina.

Cox's Knob

E Caldwell County. Alt. 2,430. Probably named for Matthew Cox, eighteenth-century settler.

Cox's Mill

former mill on Deep River, E central Randolph County. Was headquarters of David Fanning, noted leader of N.C. Tories, 1781-82. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. See also Coxsborough; Mill Creek.

Coxcomb Mountain

on the Buncombe-Yancey county line between Rocky Knob and Ogle Meadows. Alt. 5,443.

Coxe Branch

rises in N Yancey County and flows SE into Little Creek.

Coxe's Store

See Newton Grove.