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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 |
|---|---|
| Green River |
rises in SW Henderson County and flows NE into Polk County, where it turns SE to enter Broad River on the Polk-Rutherford county line. Lake Summit in Henderson County and Lake Adger in Polk County are on Green River. The Peter Guice Bridge on Interstate 26 across the river is the second-highest bridge in the eastern United States after the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. |
| Green River Gap |
on the Henderson-Polk county line. Alt. 2,700. Green River rises nearby. |
| Green River Township |
S Henderson County. |
| Green Swamp |
NW Brunswick and E Columbus Counties, an area of approx. 140 sq. mi. of peat and muck timberland. In 1795 the state of North Carolina granted 170,120 acres there to Benjamin Rowell, William Collins, and Stephen Williams. See also River View Community. |
| Green Top |
mountain peak in SW Buncombe County between Rich Knob and Yellow Gap. |
| Green Valley |
community in W Ashe County. |
| Green's Ferry |
See Spring Bank. |
| Green's Grove |
See Washburns Store. |
| Greenback |
community in N central Warren County. Post office est. 1884, discontinued 1907. |
| Greenbrier Knob |
See Mount Davis. |
