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Place Description
Corolla

community on Currituck Banks, E Currituck County. Known as Currituck Beach until 1895, when a post office was est. there and named Corolla. Whalehead Club built there in the 1920s, later used as a summer school for boys and now open to visitors as part of park. A lighthouse there, the last major one constructed on the Outer Banks, was first lighted on December 1, 1875.

Correll Branch

rises in W Haywood County, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near lat. 35°42'05" N., long. 83°07'06" W., and flows SE into Little Cataloochee Creek. The stream has also been known as North Prong.

Corundum

community in E Clay County on Barnett Branch.

Corundum Hill

E Macon County between Lickskillet Branch and Crows Branch. Named for the mineral found there.

Corys Store

community in S Martin County on Smithwick Creek.

Cosby Knob

on the Haywood County, N.C.-Cocke County, Tenn., line, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Great Smoky Mountains divide near lat. 35°43'47" N., long. 83°11'12" W. Alt. 5,145.

Cosma

community in SW Wake County.

Cossart

term used by Moravians to describe land in what is now Watauga and Wilkes Counties. Appears on the 1757 Bellin map. Title to the tract was taken by Henry Cossart (1714-63), agent who facilitated purchase of Wachovia.

Costin

community in W Pender County on Moores Creek, formerly called Costins Store.

Costins Store

See Costin.