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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 |
|---|---|
| Pocosin Branch |
rises in S Jones County and flows N into Trent River. |
| Pocosin Point |
See Poquoson Point. |
| Poe-li-co |
See French Broad River. |
| Poga Mountain |
N Avery County at the N end of Beech Mountain. Alt. 3,790. Local tradition is that a man was lost on the mountain for several days, and when he returned home he explained to his friends that he had "been to Pogey." He may have been using the English-dialect word "poggy," meaning boggy or sloppy, as a field in wet weather. |
| Pogey Mountain |
See Poga Mountain. |
| Poindexter |
See Smithtown. |
| Poindexter Branch |
rises in central Macon County and flows NE into Iotla Creek. |
| Point Bacon |
appears on the Smith map, 1624, as the N portion of present Currituck Banks in E Currituck County. It was shown as extending S from Cape Henry, Va., to Currituck Inlet. Undoubtedly named for Sir Francis Bacon, whose favor Smith sought to win. |
| Point Caswell |
community in W Pender County on Black River. Named for Richard Caswell (1729-89), governor of North Carolina. Settled prior to the Civil War. Inc. in 1883 as Caswell; charter repealed 1901. Formerly a thriving shipping point on the river; now only a church and a few houses remain. |
| Point Corbett |
appears on the Smith map, 1624, as the area of NE North Carolina presently included in Camden and Currituck Counties. |
