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Estatoecommunity in S Mitchell County on Brushy Creek. Named for the daughter of an Indian chief.
EstatoeSee Rosman.
Estatoe PathS Transylvania County, trading route between settlements of Cherokee Indians and their town of Estatoe, now in South Carolina.
Estatoe RiverSee Toe River.
Estellecommunity in NE Caswell County. A post office operated there during the approx. period 1880-1905.
Estes Branchrises in N Swain County and flows SW into Indian Creek.
Etacrewacappears on the White maps, 1585 and 1590, as an island that today would be bounded on the N by the community of Duck on the North Banks and on the S by a point on Bodie Island opposite Broad Creek Point on Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The name appears to have been Algonquian for "evergreen-ground." See also Bodie Island; North Banks. The Smith map, 1624, appears to apply the name Essex Island there.
Ethercommunity in NE Montgomery County. Known as Freeman's Cross Roads prior to the establishment of a post office there in 1888, when it was named by Dr. F. E. Asbury, local physician.
Etheridge Creekrises in SE Halifax County and flows SE on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line into Etheridge Swamp.
Etheridge Swampreceives the waters of Etheridge Creek on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line and flows SE into Conoho Creek in Martin County.