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Preface to the 2nd edition
Preface to the 1st edition
Acknowledgments

"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.

Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."

--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell

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Place Description
Running Creek

rises in W Stanly County and flows NE into Big Bear Creek.
Runnymede

former town in central Edgecombe County. Inc. 1907 as the site of the county fair; charter repealed 1909. The site is now within the limits of Tarboro, and the name survives only as the name of a mill.
Runyon Creek

is formed by the junction of several small unnamed streams NE of Washington, W Beaufort County, and flows S into Pamlico River.
Runyon Gap

N Haywood County on Snowbird Creek.
Runyon Ridge

N Haywood County parallel to Snowbird Creek.
Rural Hall

community in N Forsyth County. Earliest settler apparently was Ludwig Bitting, former German soldier in Gen. Nathanael Greene's army who liked the area when passing through and returned after the Revolutionary War to settle. Several of his descendants still live in the county. Rural Hall, however, developed after the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad erected a station there in 1887. Produces furniture and lumber. Alt. 1,002.
Rush Branch

rises in NE Buncombe County and flows SE into Broad River.
Rush Creek

rises in NW Caldwell County and flows SW into Mulberry Creek.
Rush Fork

rises in E Haywood County and flows SW into Crabtree Creek.
Rush Fork Gap

E Haywood County on the head of James Branch.