N Yancey County between Hawk Branch and Byrds Branch.

W Caldwell County. Alt. approx. 2,500.

See Woodington.

community in central Buncombe County on the E bank of French Broad River NW of Asheville.

community in NW Ashe County.

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.

SE Lenoir County.

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.

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.

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.