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Place Description
Shelter Mountain

W Montgomery County between Clark's Creek and Pee Dee River.

Shelter Neck

community in N central Pender County on the E side of Northeast Cape Fear River near DeRossett Creek.

Shelter River

See Holly Shelter Creek.

Shelter Swamp

rises in S Onslow County and flows W into Pender County, where it enters Holly Shelter Creek.

Shelton Branch

rises in N Buncombe County and flows NW into Paint Fork. See also Anderson Cove.

Shelton Creek

rises in W Granville County and flows SE into Tar River. Appears as Charlone Creek on the Collet map, 1770.

Shelton Laurel

community in N Madison County. Alt. 1,849. Settled by Martin and David Shelton about 1790 near the junction of Shelton Laurel Creek and Big Laurel Creek. There, on January 19, 1863, 13 Union supporters (12 men and a boy) were shot by a detail of Confederate soldiers in what has become known as the Shelton Laurel Massacre. White Rock, a post office from 1851 to 1936, was in the center of the Shelton Laurel community.

Shelton Laurel Creek

rises in N Madison County and flows SW into Big Laurel Creek.

Shelton Laurel Township

former township in N Madison County, now township no. 2.

Shelton Town

community in NE Surry County between Rutledge Creek and Ararat River.