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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"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
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Brooks Gap |
central Graham County on Santeetlah Lake. |
| Brooks Knob |
on the Surry-Wilkes county line. |
| Brooks Point |
off the N shore of Hatteras Island, opposite Cape Hatteras and extending into the waters of Pamlico Sound, S Dare County. |
| Brooksdale |
community in central Person County. Named for the Brooks family, local landowners and merchants. |
| Brookston |
community in E Vance County. Post office est. in 1882. |
| Broom Straw Mountain |
E Madison County between Paint Fork and Crooked Creek. |
| Broomfield Swamp Creek |
rises in SE Beaufort County and flows E into South Creek. |
| Browders Branch |
rises in N Columbus County and flows SW into West Prong Creek. |
| Brower Township |
SE Randolph County. |
| Brower's Mill |
(or Mills), former community and post office on Fork Creek in SE Randolph County. A post office operated there from 1828, when Alfred Brower was postmaster, until 1910. The name appears on a map of 1919 but apparently is not found after that date. |
