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Place Description
Garbacon Creek

rises in N Carteret County and flows N into Neuse River.

Garden City

community in central New Hanover County. Alt. 15. Settled about 1912. Named for natural beauty of area.

Garden City

See Pleasant Gardens.

Garden Creek

rises in E Haywood County and flows NE into Pigeon River. One of the earliest settlements in the county was at a wide bottom on the stream, which still is known by its earliest name, Garden Farm.

Garden Creek

rises in N Wilkes County in Doughton Park and flows E into East Prong Roaring River.

Garden Farm

See Garden Creek.

Garden Hill

former community in S Guilford County S of Sedgefield near Groometown. Site of Gardiner Hill Gold Mine. Both the community and the mine were deserted after the 1849 gold rush in California.

Garden Township

E Wilson County. Named for Jack Gardner, prominent local merchant in the mid-nineteenth century.

Gardner's Branc

rises in E Wilson County and flows N into Town Creek.

Gardners Creek

rises in E Martin County and flows NE into Devils Gut.