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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 |
|---|---|
| Eagle Gap |
W Cherokee County between Fowler Bend and Hiwassee Dam. |
| Eagle Knob |
in central Graham County between Sweetwater Creek and Mountain Creek. |
| Eagle Mills |
See Eagle. |
| Eagle Mills Township |
NE Iredell County. |
| Eagle Rock |
town in E Wake County. A printing press operated there as early as 1854. Named for a rock on which an eagle fell when shot by Thomas Richard Debnum, around whose home the town developed. Inc. 1911, when lumber industry thrived there. Long inactive in municipal affairs. Alt. 326. |
| Eagle Rock Cove |
valley of Eagle Rock Creek, NE Buncombe County. |
| Eagle Rock Creek |
rises in Great Craggy Mountains, NE Buncombe County, and flows SW into Beetree Reservoir. |
| Eagle Springs |
community in W Moore County. Settled about 1890. Site of a mineral spring, it probably was named for the Eagle family, which settled in the vicinity in the eighteenth century. Alt. 668. |
| Eagle Swamp |
rises in N Lenoir County and flows SE into Contentnea Creek. |
| Eaglenest Branch |
rises in E Transylvania County near Black Knob and flows NE into Little River. |
