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Contentnea Creekis formed in W Wilson County by the junction of Moccasin and Turkey Creeks. It flows SE into Greene County across the county and onto the Lenoir-Pitt county line, which it follows into Neuse River. Contentnea is from the Iroquoian/Tuscarora phrase meaning "fish passing by." Formerly known as Great Contentnea Creek, it is referred to in the De Graffenried account of the founding of New Bern, 1709-10. Appears as Great Cotecktney Creek on the Collet map, 1770. Cotechney was an Indian village on the creek banks in present Greene County. Other eighteenth-century references to the stream use the name Quotankney Creek. See also Moccasin River.
Great Contentnea CreekSee Contentnea Creek.
Little Contentnea Creekrises in SE Wilson County and flows SE on the Greene-Pitt county line into Pitt County, then back to the Pitt-Greene county line, which it follows into Contentnea Creek. See also Contentnea Creek. Appears as Little Cotecktney Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
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