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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 |
|---|---|
| Town Marsh |
a tidal-marsh island SW of Beaufort in S Carteret County. |
| Town Mountain Gap |
central Buncombe County in the Elk Mountains. |
| Town Point |
central Onslow County at the N end of Farnell Bay and the S end of Morgan Bay. Now within the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Air Station. |
| Town Swamp |
SW Bertie County, a part of the larger Broadneck Swamp. Probably named for a Tuscarora Indian town in the vicinity, abandoned before 1800. |
| Townhouse Branch |
rises in SW Swain County and flows SE into Nantahala River. |
| Townhouse Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County below Old Mattie Ridge and flows S into Welch Mill Creek. |
| Townhouse Ridge |
NE Cherokee County between Welch Mill Creek and Townhouse Creek. Alt. 2,523. |
| Townsend |
community in SE Cumberland County. |
| Townsend Gap |
S Watauga County near the head of Clark Creek. |
| Townsville |
town in N Vance County between Little Island Creek and SE prong of Kerr Lake. Alt. 421. James Lyne operated a store there about 1780, and the surrounding community was named Lynesville, the name by which it appears on the MacRae map, 1833. Inc. in 1857 and named for Edmund Towne, who donated land for a railway station. Served by post office since 1855. |
