Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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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. |