Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Broadbay Township |
S Forsyth County. Named for Broadbay, Mass. (now Waldoboro, Maine), the former home of the first settlers of Friedland, a community in the township. See also Friedland. |
| Broadneck Swamp |
SE Bertie County. Named for its location in a neck of the Roanoke River. See also Town Swamp. |
| Broadway |
town in E Lee County. Inc. 1907. Settled in the 1870s and named for a broad, level opening in the vast pine forest that covered the area. |
| Broadway Gap |
S Macon County between Little Scaly Mountain and Fork Mountain. |
| Brock |
community in N Graham County on Sawyer Creek. |
| Brock Knob |
on French Broad River in W Henderson County. |
| Brodie |
former community in S Warren County on Shocco Creek. A post office was est. there in 1879; apparently the community died out after the post office was discontinued in 1913. |
| Brogden |
community in S Wayne County. |
| Brogden Township |
S Wayne County. Named for the family of Curtis Hooks Brogden (1816-1901), governor of North Carolina and a native of the county. |
| Broke Yoke Gap |
on Graham-Swain county line between Tyre Knob and Peachtree Gap. |