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rises in N Haywood County and flows SW into Pigeon River.

community in N Granville County.

rises in SE Rockingham County and flows NE across Caswell County into Virginia, where it enters Dan River NE of Milton. Mentioned in local records as early as 1754. Named for the eighteenth-century custom of calling the North Carolina-Virginia line the "country line."

community in W Davie County served by post office, 1828-1906.

on the Caldwell-Wilkes county line.

on the Caldwell-Wilkes county line.

was created in 1636 by authorities in Virginia to give Henry Frederick Howard, Lord Maltravers, a specific area for his proposed settlement. Maltravers in 1632 acquired the Heath grant (see Carolana). The new county extended from about the site of present Suffolk, Va., to New Bern, N.C. It was into the area that the earliest settlers of what is now North Carolina began to move from Virginia. The County of Norfolk was soon divided into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk Counties, with the latter containing the region that later became a part of North Carolina.

SE Clay County on the SE end of Ravenrock Ridge.

S Onslow County in New River. The county's first courthouse was on the banks of New River there, 1734-35.

rises in NW Transylvania County and flows SE into North Fork French Broad River.