Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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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 Inc. 1943; charter repealed 1945.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). |