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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 |
|---|---|
| Reuben Mountain |
W Stokes County at the head of East Prong Little Yadkin River. |
| Revere |
community in central Madison County on Revere Creek. |
| Revere Creek |
rises in central Madison County and flows NW into Big Laurel Creek. |
| Revis Branch |
rises in N Buncombe County and flows NW into S Madison County, where it enters Ivy River. |
| Revolution |
former community in central Guilford County. Est. 1899. Named because the textile plant est. there was expected to revolutionize the cotton-manufacturing industry. Now within Greensboro city limits. |
| Rex |
community in NE Robeson County. |
| Reynolda Lake |
seminatural lake on Silas Creek on Reynolda Estate near the Wake Forest University campus in central Forsyth County. Covers 25 acres, with a max. depth of 15 ft. Used for fishing, boating, swimming, and irrigation. Not open to the public. |
| Reynolds Cove |
NW Buncombe County NE of Rocky Knob. |
| Reynolds Gap |
S Buncombe County between Lancy Mountain and Grassy Knob. |
| Reynoldson |
community in N Gates County. Reynoldson School operated there prior to the Civil War to prepare boys for Wake Forest College. The school was opened in 1856 and operated into the twentieth century. |
