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Place	Description
Cool Run	community in SW Brunswick County.
Cool Spring	See Scuppernong.
Cool Spring	See Creswell.
Cool Spring	community in E central Iredell County. Began with a store and hotel in the 1850s. An academy there in the 1870s became a high school at the turn of the century.
Cool Spring Branch	rises in SE Union County and flows N into Lanes Creek.
Cool Spring Precinct	See Scuppernong Township.
Cool Spring Township	E central Iredell County.
Cool Springs Township	SE Rutherford County.
Cooleemee	town in S Davie County on the South Yadkin River. Inc. 1985. Site of former Fisher's Ford. Cotton mill est. there and named for Cooleemee Plantation, which see. Post office est. 1900. Produced textiles. Alt. 840.
Cooleemee Plantation	E Davie County overlooking the Yadkin River. Land purchased by the Hairston family in 1817; plantation house, with four wings in the form of a cross from a central hall, begun in 1850, completed in 1854. Still owned by the Hairston family. Origin of the name unknown, but legend says that Revolutionary War major Peter Hairston had fought the Creek Indians in Florida; he returned home with a young Indian captive who could remember only one word of his native tongue, the word Cooleemee, believed to mean "place where the white oak grows."