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Place Description
Garden Farm

See Garden Creek.

Garden Hill

former community in S Guilford County S of Sedgefield near Groometown. Site of Gardiner Hill Gold Mine. Both the community and the mine were deserted after the 1849 gold rush in California.

Garden Township

E Wilson County. Named for Jack Gardner, prominent local merchant in the mid-nineteenth century.

Gardner's Branc

rises in E Wilson County and flows N into Town Creek.

Gardners Creek

rises in E Martin County and flows NE into Devils Gut.

Gardnerville

community in S Pitt County.

Garfield

community in SE Rowan County served by post office, 1880-1913.

Gargales Creek

See Muddy Creek.

Garland

town in SW Sampson County. Settled about 1888; inc. 1907. Named for Augustus Hill Garland (1832-99), attorney general of the United States, 1885-89. Known earlier as Sloan's Crossing. Alt. 137.

Garland Creek

rises in SW Cherokee County and flows SE into Rapier Mill Creek.