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Place Description
Cognac (cog-nack)

community in E Richmond County. Settled about 1890 and first known as Eighty-Nine Mile Siding for its distance from Raleigh. Renamed for the town in France or the brandy produced there. Alt. 400.

Coharie River

is formed in S Sampson County by the junction of Little Coharie and Great Coharie Creeks and flows SE for approx. 6 mi. to join Six Runs Creek in forming Black River.

Cohary Swamp

See Great Coharie Creek.

Cohooque

community in SE Craven County served by post office, 1880-1914.

Coinjock

community in S central Currituck County. Inc. 1893 as Arlington but dissolved by court order, March 1894, because of technical inaccuracy in description of the boundary. As early as 1830, a post office there was called Coenjock, the same name used by Bishop Thomas Coke in writing of a visit there in 1785. On Intracoastal Waterway. Originally located where Barco is today; moved S when Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was built. Other early spellings were Cornjack and Cowenjock. Alt. 5.

Coinjock Bay

in the waters of Currituck Sound, central Currituck County, between Church Island and the mainland.

Cokes

community in E Granville County.

Cokesbury

community in E Vance County on the head of Rocky Branch; named for Methodist bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.

Cokey Swamp

rises in SE Nash County and flows SE into W Edgecombe County, where it enters Town Creek. An Indian village, Tiancok, which see, appears on the site on the Comberford map, 1657. Tyancoka Creek appears on the Collet map, 1770, at the location, and the spelling Tincoco and Tiancoco are used on other maps. See also Redmans Old Field.

Cokey Township

See Edgecombe County.