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Place	Description
Banner's Store	See East Bend.
Bannerman's	or Bannerman's Bridge, community in E Pender County on Northeast Cape Fear River. Est. prior to the Revolution, but now largely abandoned.
Bannertown	community in NE Surry County.
Banton Creek	rises in NE Washington County and flows NE into Bull Bay; a portion of it forms the boundary with Tyrrell County. Sometimes erroneously called Bunton Creek.
Baptist Church Township	former township in central Cabarrus County. Now township no. 11. In 1945 a part of the township was annexed to Concord, coextensive with Concord township.
Bar Banks	See Bear Banks.
Barbacue Creek	See Barbecue Swamp.
Barbecue Swamp	rises in W Harnett County and flows NE into Upper Little River. Named by Red Neill McNeill about 1750. Mists rising from the stream early in the morning reminded him of smoke rising from barbecue pits he had seen in the West Indies. In a fit of culinary nostalgia, he named the stream Barbecue. Appears as Barbacue Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
Barbecue Swamp	rises in NE Bertie County and flows NE into Hertford County, where it enters Chinkapin Creek.
Barbecue Township	SW Harnett County.