| Lawrenceville | former town in W Montgomery County on Pee Dee River. Authorized to be laid out as the county seat, 1815; named Laurenceville, 1816. Post office operated as Lawrenceville from 1818 to 1850. After Stanly County was formed from Montgomery County in 1841, Lawrenceville was no longer in the center of the county and was soon replaced as the county seat by Troy. By 1860 it was no longer being shown on maps of the state. The site is now abandoned. |
| Laws | community in N Orange and S Person Counties. Formerly known as Laws Store. |
| Laws Store | See Laws. |
| Lawson Creek | rises in central Craven County and flows NE into Trent River. |
| Lawson Gant Lot | bald spot on Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line near lat. 35°32'45" N., long. 83°47'38" W. |
| Lawson Gant Lot Branch | rises in NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE into Tub-Mill Creek. |
| Lawsonville | community in E Rockingham County between Lick Fork and Jones Creeks. Named for Bobbie Lawson, early resident and subject of popular local legend. Lawson's Store post office operated there, 1817-23 and 1830-45. Site of several early tobacco factories and a carriage and wagon factory. |
| Lawsonville | community in N Stokes County. Alt. 1,179. |
| Lawyers | See Alexander's Store. |
| Lawyers Springs | W Anson County on a tributary of Brown Creek. So named because lawyers on the way to court used to stop there. Local tradition says a party of lawyers, spending the night there, froze to death on a snowy winter night. |