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Place Description
Cone Memorial Park

See Moses H. Cone Memorial Park.

Coneat

See Coniott Landing.

Coneby Creek

See Conaby Creek.

Coneghta

See Conetoe.

Conetoe (cuh-NEAT-uh)

town in SE Edgecombe County, inc. 1887. Known earlier as Warren's Station. Named for nearby Conetoe Creek. Produces tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. Alt. 49.

Conetoe Creek

rises in E Edgecombe County and flows s, where it forms a part of the Edgecombe-Pitt county line. It then flows S and SW into Tar River in Pitt County. The Collet map, 1770, shows Great Coneghta Pocosin as a swampy area on the W side of present-day Conetoe Creek in Edgecombe County. The name appears in county records as early as 1745.

Coney Creek

rises in SE Caswell County near Ridgeville and flows N into North Hyco Creek. Coney is an old word for rabbit.

Coneyhoe Creek

See Conoho Creek.

Confederate Memorial Forest

in Pisgah National Forest along the Haywood-Transylvania county line on the West Fork Pigeon River and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Dedicated July 12, 1942. Sponsored by the N.C. United Daughters of the Confederacy, the forest contains 125 acres planted with 125,000 red spruce and balsam trees.

Cong Branch

rises in W Sampson County and flows S into Little Coharie Creek.