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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 |
|---|---|
| Granite City |
a formation of granite cliffs S of Devils Court House area between Blackrock Mountain and Chattooga River on the Jackson-Macon county line. |
| Granite Falls |
a 35-ft. waterfall in Gunpowder Creek, SE Caldwell County. Known first as Falls of Gunpowder. Baird's Forge or Baird Iron Works est. there, 1795, by Maj. Andrew Baird. |
| Granite Quarry |
town in S Rowan County. Inc. 1901 as Woodside; name changed in 1905 for local quarries. Post office est. as Woodside, 1891; name changed to Granite Quarry, 1902. |
| Granny Branch |
rises in N central Wayne County and flows NE into The Slough. |
| Granny Cove Branch |
rises in NE Buncombe County and flows SE through Granny Cove into North Fork [Swannanoa River]. |
| Granny Green Mountain |
S Macon County between Lowery Creek and Allison Creek. |
| Granny Mountain |
W Haywood County between Johnson Gap and Jonathans Creek. |
| Granny Squirrel Branch |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NE into Valley River. |
| Granston Lake |
See White Lake. |
| Grant Branch |
rises in central Northampton County and flows SE into Urahaw Swamp. |
