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Johnsons IslandNE Currituck County off Currituck Banks.
Johnsons Mill Creekrises in W Henderson County and flows NW into Shaws Creek. Also known locally as Battle Creek.
Johnsons Mill Runrises in N Pitt County in Grindle Pocosin and flows S into Tar River.
Johnsons Millscommunity in S Pitt County. A post office was est. there in 1882.
Johnsons PondS Wake County on Terrible Creek.
Johnsonvillecommunity in SW Cherokee County at the mouth of Hothouse Branch.
Johnsonvillecommunity in W Harnett County named for Samuel Johnson, early innkeeper there. Surrounding elevated lands first known as Mount Pleasant by Highland Scots who settled there in the 1750s. Name changed later to Camerons Hill for Daniel Cameron, who lived nearby. Afterward changed to its present name. Flora MacDonald, Scottish heroine, lived there, 1774-75. In a mound 4 mi. W are buried over 100 Indians, victims of a massacre shortly before the area was settled by Scots. The mound has been vandalized.
JohnsonvilleSee Traphill.
Johnstonformer county seat in S Onslow County on New River. Est. 1741; destroyed by a hurricane in September 1752 and abandoned. Named for Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752), governor of North Carolina, 1734-52.
Johnston Countywas formed in 1746 from Craven County. Located in the E section of the state, it is bounded by Wilson, Wayne, Sampson, Cumberland, Harnett, Wake, and Nash Counties. It was named for Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752), governor of North Carolina, 1734-52. Area: 795 sq. mi. County seat: Smithfield, with an elevation of 155 ft. Townships are Banner, Bentonville, Beulah, Boon Hill, Clayton, Cleveland, Elevation, Ingrams, Meadow, Micro, O'Neals, Pine Level, Pleasant Grove, Selma, Smithfield, Wilders, and Wilson's Mills. Produces tobacco, corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, cotton, poultry, hogs, livestock, dairy products, sweet potatoes, turkeys, lumber, watermelons, furniture, chemicals, cottonseed oil, pharmaceuticals, wood products, heavy equipment, and crushed stone.