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Place Description
Allensville

community in E Person County. Formerly known as Trilby.

Allensville Township

E central Person County.

Allenton

community in E Robeson County. Alt. 131. Settled about 1868. Named for W. H. Allen, trainmaster. Bear Bay, post office 1 mi. e, abandoned with the development of Allenton.

Allenton

former town in SE Stanly County on Pee Dee River. Laid off in 1-acre lots on an 85-acre tract on the lands of William and James Allen and John Davison in 1799. A post office operated there from 1813 to 1831; Allenton ferry operated there into the twentieth century. Site now under waters of Lake Tillery.

Allents Cove Branch

rises in E Transylvania County and flows N into Crab Creek.

Alliance

community in N Pamlico County, in the center of an area that produces potatoes and tobacco. Settled in the 1890s and named for the Farmers’ Alliance movement. Former railroad station there was known as West Alliance.

Alliby Creek

See Ellerbee Creek.

Alligator

farming and grazing community in NE Tyrrell County on the Big Savanna near Alligator Creek.

Alligator Bay

in S Onslow County at the E end of Stump Sound.

Alligator Bay

swamp in NW Brunswick County. A part of Green Swamp, which see.