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Place Description
Ess-ee-daw

See Broad River.
Essex

town in SW Halifax County. Inc. 1891, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Prior to 1860 it was the center of a settlement of free blacks.
Essex Island

See Etacrewac.
Estatoe

See Rosman.
Estatoe

community in S Mitchell County on Brushy Creek. Named for the daughter of an Indian chief.
Estatoe Path

S Transylvania County, trading route between settlements of Cherokee Indians and their town of Estatoe, now in South Carolina.
Estatoe River

See Toe River.
Estelle

community in NE Caswell County. A post office operated there during the approx. period 1880-1905.
Estes Branch

rises in N Swain County and flows SW into Indian Creek.
Etacrewac

appears on the White maps, 1585 and 1590, as an island that today would be bounded on the N by the community of Duck on the North Banks and on the S by a point on Bodie Island opposite Broad Creek Point on Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The name appears to have been Algonquian for "evergreen-ground." See also Bodie Island; North Banks. The Smith map, 1624, appears to apply the name Essex Island there.