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Place Description
Sloan's Crossing

See Garland.
Sloans Creek

rises in W Rowan County and flows N approx. 3 mi. into Kerr Creek, which see. Known first as South Fork of James Cathey's Mill Creek and later as Marlins Creek.
Slocomb

community in N Cumberland County.
Slocomb Crossroads

See Turlington.
Slocum Creek

rises in SE Craven County and flows N into Neuse River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733, as Slocumbs Creek.
Sloop Point

extends from the mainland of S Pender County into Virginia Creek estuary in Topsail Sound. Named for the fact that sloops entering the sound moored there. Sloop Point post office, 1879-1936, was located at what is now Barlowes, which see. Site of oldest house in North Carolina, "Sloop Point" (ca. 1726).
Slosh

See Schlosstown.
Slough, The

stream, rises in N Wayne County and flows E into Nahunta Swamp.
Slow Creek

rises in E Cherokee County and flows SW into Peachtree Creek.
Sluder Branch

rises in NW Buncombe County on E slopes of Hanlon Mountain and flows NE and then SE into Newfound Creek.