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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 |
|---|---|
| Dukes |
community in NW Nash County. Named for Rev. G. W. Duke, local resident. |
| Dukes Crossroads |
community in E Beaufort County. |
| Dukeville |
community in E Rowan County on High Rock Lake. Named by A. W. Hicks, editor of the Spencer News, for James B. Duke. |
| Dukie Halls Crossing |
See Halls. |
| Dula Knob |
S Mitchell County between Middle Fork Grassy Creek and East Fork Grassy Creek. |
| Dula Springs |
community in N Buncombe County on Little Flat Creek E of Weaverville. |
| Dula Town |
an African American community in S central Caldwell County. Named for Alfred Dula, who gave 400 acres of land to his freed slaves. At the close of the Civil War, he also gave a horse, wagon, and cow to each former slave family. |
| Dulin's Grove |
community in W Mecklenburg County named for local family. |
| Dulins |
community in NE Davie County served by post office, 1877-1905. |
| Dumas Creek |
rises in N Montgomery County and flows SE into Denson Creek. Named for Dumas family, early settlers. Appears on recent maps as Doomas Creek. |
