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Place Description
Lower Little River

rises in SW Moore County and flows E through Moore County, forms the N boundary of Fort Bragg Military Reservation in Hoke and Cumberland Counties, and continues in part along the Cumberland-Harnett county line to Cape Fear River.
Lower Norfolk County

See County of Norfolk.
Lower Pigeon

See Clyde.
Lower Sassafras Gap

N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Noland Divide near the head of Bridge Creek, lat. 35°31'09" N., long. 83°27'15" W.
Lower Saura Town

former Indian village in NE Rockingham County on Dan River. Site approx. 2 mi. E of Leaksville. Probably occupied by Saura Indians by the middle of the seventeenth century and abandoned in early eighteenth century. Saura or Sara meant "a place of tall grass or weeds." See also Upper Saura Town; Town Creek.
Lower Second Creek

See South Second Creek.
Lower Spring Creek

rises in SE Beaufort County and flows E into Goose Creek.
Lower Town Creek Township

former township in S Edgecombe County, now township no. 10.
Lower Trail Ridge

SE Macon County between Devils Prong and Little Indian Creek.
Lowery Cove

N Buncombe County NW of Thurz Mountain.