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Tower Hillformer plantation of Governor Arthur Dobbs in what is now NE Lenoir County. He purchased 850 acres there in 1755 as a possible site for a provincial capital. By an act of the Assembly in 1758, the site was purchased for a capital to be named George City in honor of King George II. The capital was not approved by authorities in London, and the property eventually was sold by the state in 1799. Tower Hill appears on the Collet map, 1770. The name apparently originated because an "old redoubt tower" remained there from a fort constructed during the Tuscarora War, 1711-13. See also George City.
Tower Hill Branchrises in NE Lenoir County near Georgetown and flows N into Jericho Run.
Town Branchrises in NE Buncombe County and flows SW into Dillingham Creek.
Town Branchrises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW through Andrews into Valley River.
Town Branchrises in S central Yadkin County and flows SE just S of Yadkinville into North Deep Creek.
Town Creekis formed in E central Brunswick County by the junction of Rattlesnake Branch and Lewis Swamp and flows SE into Cape Fear River just above Campbell Island. Named Indian Creek by William Hilton in 1663 but appears as Old Town Creek on the Moseley map, 1733. See also Charles Town.
Town Creekrises in S central Carteret County and flows W into Newport River. It forms the N limits of the town of Beaufort.
Town Creekrises in central Catawba County and flows SW into Clark Creek.
Town Creekrises in S Clay County and flows SE and NE into Hiwassee River.
Town Creekrises in S Montgomery County and flows SE into Little River.