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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 |
|---|---|
| Groometown |
community in S Guilford County. Named for local family. |
| Gross Mine |
former gold mine in S Yadkin County on Harmon Creek. |
| Grotto |
community in N Moore County served by post office, 1893-1905. |
| Groundhog Branch |
rises in S Watauga County and flows SE into Yadkin Creek. |
| Groundhog Creek |
rises in N Haywood County and flows SW into Pigeon River. |
| Groundhog Ridge |
NW Cherokee County in the Unicoi Mountains. |
| Groundnut Creek |
rises in NW Lenoir County and flows SE into Moseley Creek. Named for the groundnut, or peanut. Groundnut Swamp appears in local records as early as 1750-60. |
| Grove Creek |
rises in central Duplin County and flows E into Northeast Cape Fear River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Grove Swamp. |
| Grove Hill |
community in S Warren County E of Buffalo Creek and S of Reedy Creek. Settled prior to 1800; post office est. 1828 but discontinued in 1954. In 1840 the post office name was temporarily changed to Owens Store. See also Fontena. |
| Grove Swamp |
See Grove Creek. |
