{"id":309,"date":"2009-10-06T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2009-10-24T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T04:44:45","slug":"physical-locations-in-nash-county-nc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/geography\/physical-locations-in-nash-county-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Locations in Nash County, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASH COUNTY, NC:\u00a0 PHYSICAL LOCATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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researched: September and December, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

posted:\u00a0 6 October 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

comments:\u00a0 earl.bell3@gmail.com
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[SOURCE:\u00a0 William S. Powell, THE NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968]<\/p>\n

Bailey <\/strong>–\u00a0 town in southwest Nash County; settled about 1860;\u00a0 incorporated in 1908; elevation 233. [page 19]<\/p>\n

Beaverdam Swamp<\/strong> –\u00a0 rises in north Nash County and flows northeast into Fishing Creek [page 34]<\/p>\n

Bear Branch<\/strong> \u2013 rises in west Nash County and flows southeast into Sapony Creek. [page 28]<\/p>\n

Big Peachtree Creek<\/strong> \u2013 rises in eastern Franklin County and flows south east into Nash County where it is joined by Little Peachtree Creek to form Stony Creek.\u00a0 [page 47]<\/p>\n

Castalia Township<\/strong> \u2013 in northwest Nash County\u00a0 [page 92]<\/p>\n

Compass Creek <\/strong>\u2013 rises in central Nash County and flows southeast into Edgecombe County to enter Tar River one mile east of the Edgecombe \u2013 Nash County line [page 116]<\/p>\n

Coopers Township <\/strong>\u2013 in south central Nash County; including Sandy Cross [page 119 and personal knowledge]<\/p>\n

Dry Wells Township <\/strong>\u2013 located in southwest Nash County; established in 1903 by NC General Assembly [page 150]<\/p>\n

Ferrells Township <\/strong>\u2013 located in southwest Nash County [page 170]<\/p>\n

Fishing Creek<\/strong> \u2013 rises in east Vance County and flows northeast in Vance and Warren Counties, and southeast and south in Warren County, to the Franklin-Warren, Halifax-Nash, and Halifax-Edgecome County lines to a point seven miles from Tarboro from where it flows south into the Tar River [page 172]<\/p>\n

Great Branch <\/strong>–\u00a0 rises in south Nash County and flows east into the Tar River [page 201]\u00a0 (Converyance of property in Wayne County, NC dated 14 May 1829, Book 15, page 546 also mentions Bear Creek and Peters Branch as streams in close proximity to the Great Branch; only the Great Branch is mentioned in Powell\u2019s NORTH CAROLINA GAZETEER.\u00a0 1968)<\/p>\n

Griffins Township<\/strong> –\u00a0 located in northwest Nash County [page 205]<\/p>\n

Henry Branch <\/strong>\u2013 rises in west Nash County and flows southeast into Sapony Creek, mentioned as early as 1778.\u00a0 [page 222]<\/p>\n

Jackson Township<\/strong> \u2013 located in south Nash County [page 250]<\/p>\n

Little Peachtree Creek <\/strong>\u2013 rises in east Franklin County and flows south east into Nash County where it joings Big Peachtree Creek to form Stony Creek.\u00a0 [page 290]<\/p>\n

Little Sapony Creek <\/strong>–\u00a0 rises in west Nash County and flows southeast into Sappony Creek\u00a0 [page 292]<\/p>\n

Mannings Township<\/strong> \u2013 located in west Nash County [page 311]<\/p>\n

Maple Creek <\/strong>\u2013 rises in south Nash County and flows southeast into Tar River [page 311]<\/p>\n

Momeyer <\/strong>\u2013 community in west central Nash County, established about 1910, previously known as Bass\u2019s Crossroads, altitute 180. [page\u00a0 331]<\/p>\n

Nash County <\/strong>\u2013 formed in 1777 from Edgecombe County.\u00a0 Located in the northeast section of the state, bounde by Edgecombe, Wilson, Johnston, Franklin and Halifax counties; area of 552 square miles; county seat of Nashville, elevation 180; contains the township of Bailey, Castalia, Coopers, Dry Wells, Ferrells, Griffins, Jackson, Mannings, Nashville, North Whitakers and Stony Creek; produces tobacco, corn, wheat, oats, peanuts, cotton, soybeans, poultry, hogs, livestock, bakery products, texitiles, furniture, lumber, apparel. [oage 345]<\/p>\n

Nashville<\/strong> \u2013 town and county seat located in central Nash County; laid out and incorporated in 1815; produces lumber and apparel. [page 345]<\/p>\n

Nashville Township<\/strong> \u2013 located in central Nash County, east of the county seat of Nashville.\u00a0 [page 345 and personal knowledge]<\/p>\n

North Whitakers Township<\/strong> \u2013 located in northeast Nash County [page 358]<\/p>\n

Oak Level Township <\/strong>\u2013 in south east Nash County [page 359]<\/p>\n

Pig Basket Creek <\/strong>\u2013 rises in northwest Nash County and flows southeast into Stony Creek;\u00a0 according to local legend the name derived from a settler who dropped\u00a0 newborn pigs he had in a basket in the swollen stream [page 381]<\/p>\n

Sandy Cross<\/strong> \u2013 crossroads community in south Nash County. [page 438]<\/p>\n

Sapony Creek <\/strong>\u2013 rises in west Nash County and flows south east into the Tar River [page 439]<\/p>\n

Stony Creek<\/strong> \u2013 formed in west Nash County by the junction of Big and Little Peachtree creeks, flows south east into the Tar River [page 477]<\/p>\n

Tar River<\/strong> –\u00a0 rises in west central Person County and flows south east through Granville, Franklin, Nash, Edgecombe and Pitt counties to Beaufort County where it becomes the Pamlico River. [page 488]<\/p>\n

Westry (formerly Westry\u2019s Siding)<\/strong> \u2013 older town settled in about 1880, incorporated in 1909, in east central Nash County, on an old railroad track, that in the first decades of the twentieth century had a couple of all purpose country stores including one owned by John Sidney Proctor [1872 \u2013 1934]; now on Old Carriage Road with onlt an identifying sign without commercial establishments. [page 527 and personal knowledge passed down in the Bell and Proctor Families].<\/p>\n

[Unidentified streams in Nash County by Powell\u2019s Gazetteer <\/strong>that are identified in early deeds include:\u00a0 March or Marsh Branch (near south side of Peachtree Creek Jan. 1805);\u00a0 Patience Brance (near north side of Sappony Creek \u2013 Oct. 1777); Manning\u2019s Branch, (near Lemon\u2019s Road in April, 1837);\u00a0 Lemon\u2019s Road (near Manning\u2019s Branch in April, 1837); Spring Branch (near Sappony Swamp and Henry\u2019s Branch in April\u00a0 1812);\u00a0 Great Bare Branch (in March 1796);\u00a0 Barrenline Branch (near Sapony Swamp);\u00a0 mouth of Gust Branch (near Ivy\u00a0 Branch in April, 1854);\u00a0 Ivy Branch (near mouth of Gust Branch in April, 1854);\u00a0 Reedy Branch (near northside of Sappony Creek, Feb. 1762); head of Sikes Branch (March 1795)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASH COUNTY, NC:\u00a0 PHYSICAL LOCATIONS researched: September and December, 2009 posted:\u00a0 6 October 2009 comments:\u00a0 earl.bell3@gmail.com [SOURCE:\u00a0 William S. Powell, THE NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTEER (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968] Bailey –\u00a0 town in southwest Nash…<\/p>\n

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