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Place	Description
Bridges Creek	rises in E Montgomery County and flows NW into Little River.
Bridges Creek	See Bridgers Creek.
Bridgeton	town in central Craven County. Settled about 1900. Inc. 1907. Named for the bridge across the Neuse River that connected it with New Bern. Alt. 8.
Bridgewater	community in W Burke County on the Catawba River. Originally the name of the plantation of John Rutherford, who named it for Francis Egerton (1736-1803), Earl of Bridgewater, inland navigation expert and canal builder.
Bridgewater Reservoir	See Lake James.
Bridle Creek	former plantation house in W Warren County approx. 3 mi. SW of Warrenton. Two Confederate major generals, Matthew Whitaker Ransom and Robert Ransom, brothers, were born there. Only ruined foundations now mark the site.
Bridle Creek	rises in W Warren County and flows E into Fishing Creek. A bridge across the creek is mentioned in local records as early as 1765.
Bridle Ridge	extends SE from Yancey County into NW McDowell County between Bee Rock and Cow Creeks.
Brief	community in N Union County between Red Creek and Duck Creek.
Brier Creek	community in S Wilkes County. Brier Creek Baptist Church there est. in the eighteenth century. A post office by the name served the community from about 1822 until 1882.