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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 |
|---|---|
| Broad Shoals |
community in S Alexander County served by post office, 1881-1904. |
| Broad Swamp |
W Beaufort County, is the lower course of Hall Swamp. It flows S into Pamlico River. |
| Broadbay Township |
S Forsyth County. Named for Broadbay, Mass. (now Waldoboro, Maine), the former home of the first settlers of Friedland, a community in the township. See also Friedland. |
| Broadneck Swamp |
SE Bertie County. Named for its location in a neck of the Roanoke River. See also Town Swamp. |
| Broadway |
town in E Lee County. Inc. 1907. Settled in the 1870s and named for a broad, level opening in the vast pine forest that covered the area. |
| Broadway Gap |
S Macon County between Little Scaly Mountain and Fork Mountain. |
| Brock |
community in N Graham County on Sawyer Creek. |
| Brock Knob |
on French Broad River in W Henderson County. |
| Brodie |
former community in S Warren County on Shocco Creek. A post office was est. there in 1879; apparently the community died out after the post office was discontinued in 1913. |
| Brogden |
community in S Wayne County. |
