Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Whipping Creek |
rises in SW Dare County and flows SW into Long Shoal River. Appears as Aquascog River on the Comberford map, 1657, and under its present name on the Collet map, 1770. Aquascogoc was an Algonquian Indian village near the head of the Pungo River estuary; the name is believed to have meant "where a place for disembarking exists." |
Whispering Pines |
residential community on Thagards Pond, E Moore County. Developed about 1962. See also Thagards Pond. |
Whistling Gap |
NW Yancey County between Chestnut Ridge and the head of Whistling Gap Branch. |
Whistling Gap Branch |
rises in NW Yancey County and flows SE into Little Creek. |
Whitaker |
See Grover. |
Whitaker Branch |
rises in W Avery County and flows SE into North Toe River. |
Whitaker Creek |
rises in E Cleveland County and flows S into Buffalo Creek. |
Whitaker Crossroads |
community in S Surry County near the head of Hagan Creek. |
Whitaker Mountain |
S Cleveland County. |
Whitaker's Mills |
See Gold Rock. |