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Place Description
Estatoe

community in S Mitchell County on Brushy Creek. Named for the daughter of an Indian chief.

Estatoe Path

S Transylvania County, trading route between settlements of Cherokee Indians and their town of Estatoe, now in South Carolina.

Estatoe River

See Toe River.

Estelle

community in NE Caswell County. A post office operated there during the approx. period 1880-1905.

Estes Branch

rises in N Swain County and flows SW into Indian Creek.

Etacrewac

appears on the White maps, 1585 and 1590, as an island that today would be bounded on the N by the community of Duck on the North Banks and on the S by a point on Bodie Island opposite Broad Creek Point on Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The name appears to have been Algonquian for "evergreen-ground." See also Bodie Island; North Banks. The Smith map, 1624, appears to apply the name Essex Island there.

Ether

community in NE Montgomery County. Known as Freeman's Cross Roads prior to the establishment of a post office there in 1888, when it was named by Dr. F. E. Asbury, local physician.

Etheridge Creek

rises in SE Halifax County and flows SE on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line into Etheridge Swamp.

Etheridge Swamp

receives the waters of Etheridge Creek on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line and flows SE into Conoho Creek in Martin County.

Etheridge's Branch

rises in NW Wilson County and flows S and SE into Contentnea Creek.