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Place Description
Marg Mountain

S Haywood County between Camp Branch and Browning Branch.

Margaret

community in E Franklin County. Named by C. P. Harris for his daughter. A post office prior to 1909.

Margaret Peak

on the McDowell-Rutherford county line. Alt. 2,500.

Margaretsville

town in NE Northampton County. Post office est. 1836. Chartered 1885 as Margarettsville, but charter repealed 1891. Rechartered as Margaretsville in 1895. Named for Mrs. Margaret Ridley, an early resident. Alt. 54. The railroad name is Margaret.

Margrace

community in SE Cleveland County.

Maria Creek

rises in NE Carteret County and flows SE into Core Sound.

Marianna Falls

See Dutch Creek Falls.

Maribel

community in N Pamlico County on Chapel Creek, known originally as Shoofly. At the establishment of a post office in 1883, long since discontinued, it was named by postmaster Fentress for his sweetheart in Georgia, a girl named Mary Belle.

Marietta

town in S Robeson County. Alt. 125. Settled about 1898. Inc 1911. Formerly known as Affinity until renamed by Augustus Marriel, a promoter of the Raleigh and Charleston Railroad, whose line formerly ran through the town.

Marietta Township

S Robeson County.