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Place Description
Bricks

community in N Edgecombe County. Named for Joseph Keasbey Brick, in whose honor an agricultural, industrial, and normal school for blacks was est. there by Mrs. Julia Elma Brewster Brick in 1895. School closed, 1933.

Brickton

community in N Henderson County. Took its name from former large brick-manufacturing plant.

Bridal Veil Falls

SE Macon County on Cullasaja River. Water falls 120 ft. See also Cullasaja River.

Bridge Branch

rises in N Macon County and flows SE into Burningtown Creek.

Bridge Creek

rises in N Swain County and flows SE into Deep Creek.

Bridge Falls

SE Haywood County on West Fork of Pigeon River. In a series of falls, water drops between 300 and 400 ft. Named because a bridge crosses the river at the top of the falls.

Bridgeport

community in central Stanly County served by post office, 1883-1916.

Bridgers Creek

rises in S Northampton County and flows W into Roanoke River. Appears as Bridges Creek on the Moseley map, 1733. Pulhams Ferry, according to the Collet map, 1770, was operated across the Roanoke River at the mouth of Bridgers Creek. By 1808 and as late as 1833, the ferry was known as Pollock's Ferry, and in 1862 it was known as Devereux's Ferry.

Bridgersville

town in E Wilson County. Inc. 1925, but long inactive in municipal affairs. Named for John F. Bridgers. Post office operated there, 1889-95.

Bridges Camp Gap

on the Haywood-Transylvania county line.