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Place Description
Crossway

community in S Scotland County on Lytch's Pond.

Crouse

town in S Lincoln County. Settled about 1840. Inc. 1907. Named for W. L. Crouse, a physician who built the first house in the community.

Crow Branch

rises in S Jackson County and flows NE into Whitewater River.

Crow Creek

rises in S Macon County and flows NE into Cullasaja River.

Crow Hill

point of land W of Straits, E Carteret County, extending into North River.

Crow Island

appears on the Collet map, 1770; it existed as late as 1833. In Currituck Sound, NE Currituck County, it was SE of Knotts Island and barred the sound side of New Currituck Inlet until the inlet closed. After 1833 Crow Island began disintegrating, so that by 1861 it was only a mass of tidal-marsh islands.

Crowder Mountain Township

SW Gaston County.

Crowders

community in S Gaston County. Nineteenth-century post office there was known as Crowder's Creek. Alt. 775.

Crowders Creek

rises in SW Gaston County and flows NE and SE into South Carolina, where it enters Catawba River.

Crowders Mountain

SW Gaston County. Named for Ulrich Crowder, an early settler who soon moved away. Some action against Tories took place there during the Revolution. Alt. 1,624. See also All Healing Springs.