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Place Description
Cottonville

community in S Stanly County. Named prior to the Civil War because of the quantity of cotton grown in the vicinity.

Cottonwood

community in S Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1890-1900.

Cottrell Hill

community in E Caldwell County on Zacks Fork. Named for William Cottrell, who settled there shortly before the Civil War.

Couch Mountain

E Orange County on the head of Little Creek.

Couches Creek

rises in NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE into Oconaluftee River.

Coulson Ordinary

appears on the Collet map, 1770, on the Pee Dee River in what is now SE Stanly County E of the town of Norwood. At Colson's Mill nearby, Col. William Lee Davidson's Whig militia defeated Col. Samuel Bryan's Tories in July 1780.

Council

town in S Bladen County. Alt. 64. Inc. 1905. Named for industrialist K. Clyde Council (1886?-1951). Also called Council Station because of depot on railroad.

Council Gap

W central Watauga County near the head of Bairds Creek.

Council Mill Pond

S Bladen County 14 mi. SE of county seat; an artificial pond on Friar Swamp owned by Clyde Council estate. Fishing. Not open to the public.

Council Station

See Council.