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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 |
|---|---|
| Bentonville Battlefield |
State Historic Site, S Johnston County. Scene of Civil War battle, March 19-22, 1865, in which Confederates under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston encountered Federals under Gen. William T. Sherman. Bloodiest battle ever fought on North Carolina soil. |
| Bentonville Township |
SE Johnston County. |
| Benvenue |
community in E Nash County between Horn Beam Swamp and Compass Creek. Took its name from the plantation of Benjamin Hickman Bunn, which was named about 1890 for Ben Venue, a small mountain in Perthshire, Scotland. |
| Berea |
community in W Granville County. Alt. 475. Settled prior to 1870. |
| Bergaw Creek |
See Burgaw Creek. |
| Berkeley County |
est. prior to 1691 by the Lords Proprietors of Carolina in what is now E South Carolina. Named for John Berkeley (ca. 1607-78), Baron Berkeley of Stratton, one of the original eight Lords Proprietors. |
| Berkeley Parish |
Church of England, Perquimans County, was est. in 1701, coextensive with the county. In 1767 it was composed of 900 white taxable "inhabitants in midling Circumstances." |
| Berkeley Precinct |
See Perquimans County. |
| Berlin |
See Bina. |
| Bermuda Island |
in the waters of Kitty Hawk Bay, N Dare County. |
