Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Chinquapin Township |
W Jones County. |
Chip |
community in S Montgomery County between Thickety Creek and Little River. Served by post office, 1920-32. Likely named for byproducts of local sawmills. |
Chisholm's Store |
See Pekin. |
Chiska Creek |
rises in W central Bertie County and flows E into Cashie River. Hills Mill on the creek is shown on the Collet map, 1770, but not on later maps. |
Chisman |
community in SE Stokes County. |
Chockeyotte |
town in N Halifax County. Inc. 1901. |
Chockoyotte Creek |
rises in N Halifax County and flows SE into Roanoke River. Name believed to be a Tuscarora Indian word. A stone aqueduct, part of the pre-Civil War Roanoke Navigation Canal, remains over the creek. It appears as Chocolate Creek on the Collet map, 1770. |
Chocolate Creek |
See Chockoyotte Creek. |
Chocolate Drop Mountain |
See Foster Mountain. |
Chocowinity |
town in W Beaufort County. Known as Godleys Crossroads until renamed for nearby creek. Inc. 1917; charter repealed 1947; reincorporated 1959. Railroad station name was Marsden, adopted in 1917 for Marsden J. Perry, a railroad official. Alt. 35. |