town in W Beaufort County. Known as Godleys Crossroads until renamed for nearby creek. Inc. 1917; charter repealed 1947; reincorporated 1959. Railroad station name was Marsden, adopted in 1917 for Marsden J. Perry, a railroad official. Alt. 35.

formed by the mouth of Chocowinity Creek in Pamlico River, W Beaufort County.

rises in SW Beaufort County and flows N into Chocowinity Bay and Pamlico River. Called Worsley Creek on the Collet map, 1770; by 1808 (Price's map) it was called by its present name, though MacRae's map in 1833 called it Chocowinity Swamp. The name is said to be Indian in origin and to mean "fish from many waters."

See Chocowinity Creek.

SW Beaufort County.

traditional site of the first courthouse of Cumberland County, located at the mouth of Little River near the present site of Linden in the N part of the county. The courthouse was there from 1755 until it was moved to Campbellton in 1765. The name may be derived from the old English word "chuff," meaning a rustic or rude, coarse fellow, and may have been applied by people of English descent to the recently arrived Scots.

rises in W Macon County and flows NE into Nantahala Lake.

in E Jackson County on the head of Mull Creek.

rises in N Swain County and flows W into Forney Creek.

rises in SE Bertie County and flows E into Roquist Creek.