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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 |
|---|---|
| Lawyers Springs |
W Anson County on a tributary of Brown Creek. So named because lawyers on the way to court used to stop there. Local tradition says a party of lawyers, spending the night there, froze to death on a snowy winter night. |
| Laxon |
community in E Watauga County. |
| Laxon Creek |
rises in E Watauga County and flows NW into South Fork New River. |
| Layn Flu |
See Alligator River. |
| Layton |
community in central Rockingham County served by post office, 1892-1903. |
| Laytown |
community in NE Caldwell County. Named for Thomas Lay, eighteenth-century settler. |
| Laytown Creek |
rises in N Caldwell County and flows SE into Yadkin River. Originally called Linville's Mill Creek. |
| Leachburg |
community in N Johnston County served by post office, 1854-1903. Spelled Leechburg until 1876. |
| Leaches Island |
See Hog Island. |
| Lead |
community in S Henderson County on Green River. |
