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Place Description
East Franklin

community in central Macon County.

East Fruitland

See Pores Knob.

East Gastonia

unincorporated outskirts of city of Gastonia, central Gaston County.

East Howellsville Township

E Robeson County.

East Kings Mountain

former town in W Gaston County on the Cleveland County line. Inc. 1907. By popular vote, it was transferred to Cleveland County in 1915. Became a part of Kings Mountain, which see, in 1923.

East Lake

community on the mainland of NW Dare County on South Lake. Settled about 1790. Alt. 10.

East Lake

lake on the mainland of N Dare County, empties into the mouth of Alligator River.

East Lake Landing

NW Dare County on Alligator River. State-operated free ferry from the landing to Sandy Point in NE Tyrrell County was replaced by the Lindsay C. Warren Bridge, 2.83 mi. long and opened in May 1962; named for Lindsay C. Warren (1889-1976), former U.S. congressman and comptroller general.

East Lake Township

NW Dare County mainland.

East Laport

community in N Jackson County on Tuckasegee River. Developed at the site of an eighteenth-century French trading post that the French considered to be an east gate or door (la porte) to the Cherokee country. Alt. 2,186.