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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
Rush Mountain

S Henderson County between Huckleberry Ridge and McAlpine Mountain.
Rushing

community in SE Union County served by post office, 1883-1903.
Rusk

community in SW Surry County served by post office, 1851-1951.
Ruskin

community in NW Bladen County served by post office, 1902-26.
Russell

community in SW Chatham County.
Russell Branch

rises in Union County, Ga., and flows NE into Clay County, where it enters Pinelog Creek.
Russell Gap

on the Alexander-Wilkes county line. Alt. 1,550.
Russellborough

SE Brunswick County on the Cape Fear River just N of the location of the former town of Brunswick, site of the home of royal governors Arthur Dobbs and William Tryon. A house there, begun by Capt. John Russell of His Majesty's Sloop Scorpion, was purchased in 1758 by Dobbs; renamed Castle Dobbs after his marriage in 1762. At Dobbs's death in 1765, Tryon occupied the house and named it Castle Tryon. When Tryon left the house in 1770, it was purchased by William Dry and renamed Bellfont. It burned in 1776. The site was excavated in 1967 by the N.C. Department of Archives and History, and eighteenth-century artifacts were discovered, many of which are on display at Brunswick State Historic Site.
Russells Creek

rises in central Carteret County and flows S into Newport River.
Russellville

community in central Anson County served by post office for six months in 1901.