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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 |
|---|---|
| Crow Island |
appears on the Collet map, 1770; it existed as late as 1833. In Currituck Sound, NE Currituck County, it was SE of Knotts Island and barred the sound side of New Currituck Inlet until the inlet closed. After 1833 Crow Island began disintegrating, so that by 1861 it was only a mass of tidal-marsh islands. |
| Crowder Mountain Township |
SW Gaston County. |
| Crowders |
community in S Gaston County. Nineteenth-century post office there was known as Crowder's Creek. Alt. 775. |
| Crowders Creek |
rises in SW Gaston County and flows NE and SE into South Carolina, where it enters Catawba River. |
| Crowders Mountain |
SW Gaston County. Named for Ulrich Crowder, an early settler who soon moved away. Some action against Tories took place there during the Revolution. Alt. 1,624. See also All Healing Springs. |
| Crowells |
community in central Halifax County between Tillery and Enfield. Named for two brothers, Edward and Joseph Crowell, who settled there about 1730. |
| Crowells Springs |
community in E Stanly County on Mountain Creek. |
| Crown Stream |
community in S Pender County. An abandoned railroad station nearby was named Richards. |
| Crozier Branch |
rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows E into Cabarrus County, where it enters Ready Creek. |
| Crumpler |
community in NE Ashe County on North Fork New River. Named for Maj. Thomas Newton Crumpler, who died of wounds received in the Civil War. Thompson's Bromine-Arsenic Springs nearby discovered in 1885; hotel and cottages built in 1887. This and nearby All Healing Springs made the region a popular resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
