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Place Description
Hood Swamp

community in E Wayne County near West Bear Creek. Formerly called Aaron for Aaron Parks (d. 1845), a local farmer and lay religious leader. Renamed for local Free Will Baptist church, of which Parks was a member. Name appeared in nineteenth-century records as Wood Swamp.
Hoods

or community in E Mecklenburg County. Morning Star Lutheran Church organized there in 1775.
Hoods Pond

E Wake County on Marks Creek.
Hoodsville

See Chesterfield.
Hoof Inn

an early nineteenth-century tavern in W Washington County located on what is now the Plymouth-Pinetown road approx. midway between Ausbon and Hinson.
Hooker

community in E Alleghany County. Alt. approx. 2,600.
Hooker Creek

rises in W Henderson County and flows SW into E Transylvania County and into Little River.
Hooker Gap

SW Buncombe County at the E end of Holland Mountain.
Hookers Knob

E Madison County between Jarvis Mountain and Gabriels Creek.
Hookerton

town in SE Greene County on Contentnea Creek. Alt. 75. Inc. as Hookerton, 1817, on the lands of William Hooker. Known as Caswells Landing prior to the Revolution for Benjamin Caswell, brother of Governor Richard Caswell. Several early nineteenth-century academies flourished there, and a public library was est. in 1817.