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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 |
|---|---|
| Browns Swamp |
rises in SE Onslow County and flows SW into Turpentine Creek. Appears in local records as Brown's Creek as early as 1744. |
| Browns Turnout |
See Vaughan. |
| Brownsville |
community in NE Granville County on Grassy Creek. A post office as early as 1822. |
| Browntown |
community in S Greene County. Named for the fact that it was a community of residents of mixed race. Settled prior to 1890. |
| Bruce |
community in W Pitt County. Cottendale, the plantation of the Cotten family (Sallie Southall Cotten, Bruce Cotten, and others) is nearby. |
| Bruce Knob |
central Macon County between the head of Wallace Creek and Carson Cove. |
| Bruce Ridge |
E Clay County between Glade Branch and Cold Spring Branch. |
| Bruce Township |
NW Guilford County, named for Charles Bruce, early settler, Revolutionary War soldier, and founder of Bruce's Crossroad, now Summerfield. |
| Bruce's Crossroads |
See Summerfield. |
| Brumleys Creek |
rises in NE Caldwell County and flows SE into Lower Creek approx. 3 mi. W of Lenoir. |
