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Place	Description
Whitaker's Mills	See Gold Rock.
Whitakers	town on the Edgecombe-Nash county line. Settled approx. 1840; post office est. 1866. Post office name changed to Mayonia for approx. 3 months in 1886. Inc. 1872. Named for Richard and Henry Whitaker, local landowners who supplied wood to the railroad when it was being built. First known as Whitaker's Turnout. Alt. 134.
White Branch	rises in N Buncombe County and flows SW into Flat Creek.
White Branch	rises in NE Cherokee County and flows S into Junaluska Creek.
White Branch	rises in N Franklin County and flows NE into Little Shocco Creek.
White Creek	rises in S central Avery County and flows SE into Linville River.
White Creek	rises in S Buncombe County and flows NE into French Broad River.
White Creek	See North Fork [Duck Creek].
White Creek Township	in S Bladen County.
White Cross	community in S Orange County. A post office there, 1880-1906, was known as Gath.