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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Mountain Valley |
community in S McDowell County. Named for plantation owned by George Gradin. |
| Mountain View |
community in S Stokes County between the head of Danbury Creek and Town Fork Creek. Mountain View Institute, an academy, operated there, 1895-1920. |
| Mountainside Branch |
rises in S Macon County and flows NW into Big Mooney Branch. |
| Mountainside Grove |
community on Falls Branch in E Macon County. |
| Mouse Creek |
W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rises near lat. 35°42'22" N., long. 83°07'17" W., and flows NW into Big Creek. The name is an Indian one. |
| Mouse Harbor |
bay on the E side of Goose Creek Island, NE Pamlico County in the waters of Pamlico Sound. The shape of the bay on a map vaguely suggests the shape of a mouse. |
| Mouse Knob |
SW Graham County on Snowbird Creek. The name is a translation of the Indian name. |
| Mouse Mountain |
N Macon County between Rickman Creek and Bradley Creek. |
| Mowfield |
community in W Northampton County. Sir Archie, famed thoroughbred, is buried on plantation there. |
| Moxley |
community in N Wilkes County on Middle Prong Roaring River. |
