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See Bridgers Creek.

town in S Jones County on Trent River. Known as Trent Bridge as early as 1779, and a post office was est. 1809. Inc. 1834 as Pollocksville, but a municipal government was not formed at that time. Reincorporated 1849. The name Pollock appears at the location on the Collet map, 1770, and others into the nineteenth century, when Trent Bridge is shown across the river and Pollocksville at the site of the town. Produces lumber. Alt. 13.

E Jones County.

W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Balsam Mountain near lat. 35°33'48" N., long. 83°09'42" W. Alt. 5,090. Named after Aunt Polly Moody's family cow, Poll, died, and her bones were left bleaching in the sun for many years.

E Mitchell County parallel to Laurel Branch.

in central Jackson County between Double Top Mountain and Horneyhead Mountain.

S Jackson County, bordered on the E by Scotsman Creek and on the S by Chattooga River. Alt. approx. 3,150.

See Poley Swamp.

community in S Alexander County. Alt. approx. 1,000. Named for Rev. Polycarp Henkle, Lutheran minister in the vicinity in the nineteenth century.

appears on the White-De Bry map, 1590, as an enclosed Indian village in present Hyde County between Lake Mattamuskeet and Wyesocking Bay.