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Place Description
Crowells

community in central Halifax County between Tillery and Enfield. Named for two brothers, Edward and Joseph Crowell, who settled there about 1730.

Crowells Springs

community in E Stanly County on Mountain Creek.

Crown Stream

community in S Pender County. An abandoned railroad station nearby was named Richards.

Crozier Branch

rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows E into Cabarrus County, where it enters Ready Creek.

Crumpler

community in NE Ashe County on North Fork New River. Named for Maj. Thomas Newton Crumpler, who died of wounds received in the Civil War. Thompson's Bromine-Arsenic Springs nearby discovered in 1885; hotel and cottages built in 1887. This and nearby All Healing Springs made the region a popular resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cruse

community in E Haywood County on East Fork Pigeon River. Est. 1885 and named by first postmaster, who had just read Robinson Crusoe Alt. 2,900.

Cruso

community in central Haywood County served by post office, 1892-1942.

Crusoe Island

See River View Community.

Crutchfield

community in SW Surry County on Yadkin River. Alt. 872.

Crutchfields Falls

rapids in Yadkin River, W Surry County near the mouth of Fishers River, S of the community of Crutchfield. The rapids comprise a fall of 4 ft. over a distance of approx. ¼ mi. Mentioned as early as 1819 in a survey of the rivers of the state.