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See Toisnot Swamp.

See Wilson.

appears on the Moseley map, 1733, as being between Uwharrie and Caraway Creek in what is now W Randolph County. Named for Totero or Tutelo Indians, who lived in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in the seventeenth century but who subsequently migrated to E Virginia and later to Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SW into Valley River.

W central Washington County over Skinner Canal near the community of Basnight. Known by the name as early as 1868.

W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a spur extending NW from Cataloochee Divide; center near lat. 35°35'05" N., long. 83°05'54" W., between Clontz Branch and McKee Branch.

rises in NE Swain County and flows SW into Oconaluftee River. Named because an old woman who lived on the creek made tow strings for the settlers.

former plantation of Governor Arthur Dobbs in what is now NE Lenoir County. He purchased 850 acres there in 1755 as a possible site for a provincial capital. By an act of the Assembly in 1758, the site was purchased for a capital to be named George City in honor of King George II. The capital was not approved by authorities in London, and the property eventually was sold by the state in 1799. Tower Hill appears on the Collet map, 1770. The name apparently originated because an "old redoubt tower" remained there from a fort constructed during the Tuscarora War, 1711-13. See also George City.

rises in NE Lenoir County near Georgetown and flows N into Jericho Run.

rises in NE Buncombe County and flows SW into Dillingham Creek.