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Place Description
Apple Grove

community in NW Ashe County. Alt. 3,137.

Appletree

community in NW Greene County served by post office, 1886-98. Later known as Lindell, which see.

Appletree Branch

rises in NW Macon County and flows SW into Queens Creek.

Appletree Branch

rises in W Macon County and flows SE into Nantahala River.

Appletree Swamp

rises in NE Wayne County and flows SE into Nahunta Swamp in Greene County. The name appears in local records prior to 1750.

Applewhite

community in E Columbus County served by post office, 1892-1907.

Aquadale

community in S Stanly County. Inc. 1943; charter repealed 1945. Named by local resident: aqua (water) and dale (valley). Many springs in the area.

Aquascog River.

See Whipping Creek.

Aquascogoc

appears on the White map, 1585, as an Indian village near the head of Pungo River estuary, not far from either modern Scranton in Hyde County or Belhaven in Beaufort County.

Aquone

community in W Macon County on Nantahala River. Alt. 2,950. Settled on the site of Fort Scott, one of the stockades where Cherokee Indians were housed before being removed to Oklahoma, 1838. Name believed to be a corruption of egwanul'ti (by the river).