User:Leakeyroof/NC County Descriptions

Alamance Description
Alamance County is located in the North-Central portion of North Carolina and is called after the creek by the same name - Alamance - a Native American word describing the blue-colored mud found in the creekbed.

Alexander Description
Alexander County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named in honor of the Alexander family who were leaders in Colonial North Carolina.

Alleghany Description
Alleghany County is located in the North-West portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Virginia. It was named for an Indian tribe, and the name is derived from "a corruption of the Delaware Indian name for the Allegheny River and is said to have meant "a fine stream".

Anson Description
Anson County is located in the Southern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with South Carolina. It was named for George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, a British Admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

Ashe Description
Ashe County is located in the upper Northwest corner of North Carolina and shares border with Tennessee and Virginia. It was named for Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina from 1795 to 1798.

Avery Description
Avery County is located in the Northwestern portion of North Carolina and shares a border with Tennessee. It was named for Col. Waightstill Avery, a Revolutionary War officer and the first attorney general of North Carolina.

Beaufort Description
Beaufort County is located in the Eastern portion of North Carolina and it took its present name from Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Bertie Description
Bertie County is located in the Northeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for James and Henry Bertie to whom King Charles II granted tracts of land in the New World called "Carolina".

Bladen Description
Bladen County is located in the Southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for English commissioner of trade and plantations Martin Bladen.

Brunswick Description
Brunswick County is located in the Southeastern portion of North Carolina and was named for King George I, who was also the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg.

Buncombe Description
Buncombe County is located in the Western portion of North Carolina and was named for Edward Buncombe, a Revolutionary War colonel.