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rises in N Avery County and flows NE into Buckeye Creek.

See Wilmington.

community in SE Wilkes County between Osborne and Hunting Creeks. Named for the plantation of James Clemmons Hunt (1804-47), local merchant and planter. The town of Denneysville was authorized to be laid out at the site in 1817 on land then owned by George Denny, but it apparently did not develop. Known as Hunt's Store by 1847 and by its present name by the 1850s.

E Wilkes County.

from the Atlantic Ocean into Currituck Sound through Currituck Banks, opened in the 1730s and closed in 1828. The site is now in E Currituck County.

See Exeter.

See Guilford College.

was formed in 1729 from Craven County. Located in the SE section of the state, it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Fear River, and Brunswick and Pender Counties. It was named in honor of the royal family of England, members of the House of Hanover. Area: 225 sq. mi. County seat: Wilmington, with an elevation of 38 ft. Townships are Cape Fear, Federal Point, Harnett, Masonboro, and Wilmington. Produces miscellaneous fruits and vegetables, bulbs and flowers, seafood, ceramics, optical fiber, nuclear technology, corn, soybeans, hogs, dairy products, poultry, bakery goods, fabricated metals, lumber, wooden containers, textiles, apparel, paper boxes, chemicals, refrigeration machinery, sand, and limestone.

community in SW Wake County. Post office est. in 1832. Inc. 1907; charter repealed 1917. Alt. 356.

community on the S shore of Lake Mattamuskeet in central Hyde County. Alt. 3. Settled 1910 and named by a development company that attempted to drain the lake for farmland but finally gave up in 1934, when the lake was allowed to refill. Their activity suggested the Netherlands’ continuous efforts to drain farmland, hence the name.