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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 |
|---|---|
| Powellton |
community in NW Richmond County. A post office operated there, 1829-1918. Named for Pleasant M. Powell. |
| Powelltown |
community on the outskirts of Lenoir, central Caldwell County. Named for a British soldier, Elias Powell (d. 1831), who remained in the area following the Battle of Kings Mountain, 1780. Known earlier as Powellton. |
| Powers Branch |
rises in E Mitchell County and flows SE into Fall Creek. |
| Powhatan |
community in N Johnston County. Alt. 294. |
| Poyner Hill |
formerly a sand hill on S Currituck Banks, E Currituck County. Erosion has almost obliterated the hill. During World War II, a temporary Coast Guard base was located there. |
| Prather Gap |
W Yancey County between Possumtrot and Price Creeks. |
| Prathers Creek |
rises in SW Alleghany County and flows NW into South Fork New River. |
| Prathers Creek Township |
W central Alleghany County. |
| Pratt |
community in W Johnston County served by post office, 1884-1901. |
| Prattsburg |
former community in central Durham County approx. 2 mi. E of the original railroad station for Durham. In the 1850s, William Pratt refused to give a right-of-way or land for a station at Prattsburg. The railroad avoided his property, and as a result, Durham was est. |
