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Crow Islandappears on the Collet map, 1770; it existed as late as 1833. In Currituck Sound, NE Currituck County, it was SE of Knotts Island and barred the sound side of New Currituck Inlet until the inlet closed. After 1833 Crow Island began disintegrating, so that by 1861 it was only a mass of tidal-marsh islands.
Crowder Mountain TownshipSW Gaston County.
Crowderscommunity in S Gaston County. Nineteenth-century post office there was known as Crowder's Creek. Alt. 775.
Crowders Creekrises in SW Gaston County and flows NE and SE into South Carolina, where it enters Catawba River.
Crowders MountainSW Gaston County. Named for Ulrich Crowder, an early settler who soon moved away. Some action against Tories took place there during the Revolution. Alt. 1,624. See also All Healing Springs.
Crowellscommunity in central Halifax County between Tillery and Enfield. Named for two brothers, Edward and Joseph Crowell, who settled there about 1730.
Crowells Springscommunity in E Stanly County on Mountain Creek.
Crown Streamcommunity in S Pender County. An abandoned railroad station nearby was named Richards.
Crozier Branchrises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows E into Cabarrus County, where it enters Ready Creek.
Crumplercommunity in NE Ashe County on North Fork New River. Named for Maj. Thomas Newton Crumpler, who died of wounds received in the Civil War. Thompson's Bromine-Arsenic Springs nearby discovered in 1885; hotel and cottages built in 1887. This and nearby All Healing Springs made the region a popular resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.