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Place	Description
Woodfin	community in central Buncombe County on the E bank of French Broad River NW of Asheville.
Woodford	community in NW Ashe County.
Woodington	community in S Lenoir County. Named by Richard Caswell, who acquired a plantation there about 1767 before becoming governor. Name sometimes appears as Woodenton in nineteenth-century records.
Woodington Township	SE Lenoir County.
Woodland	town in E Northampton County. Alt. 72. Inc. 1883. Settled about 1835. Named for the Wood family, early Quaker settlers. Produces lumber. See also George.
Woodlawn	community in NW McDowell County in Turkey Cove and on Limekiln Creek. Site of Cathey's Fort, a rendezvous point for the state militia led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee Indians in 1776.
Woodlawn	See Mount Holly.
Woodleaf	town in N Rowan County. Inc. 1909, but long inactive in municipal affairs. A post office was est. there in 1855 with Daniel Wood as first postmaster. Alt. 711. A large gravel pit is worked there.
Woodleigh	community on Knotts Island in NE Currituck County.
Woodley	community in NW Tyrrell County between Scuppernong River and the Tyrrell-Washington county line. Originated as a depot, but tracks and depot no longer in use.