NC Gazetteer

Warsaw

Also known as: Mooresville
A town in Duplin County
… town in W Duplin County. Alt. 160. Settled about 1825. Inc. 1855. Early known as Mooresville. Renamed by the conductor of the first train to run through what was then a crossroads community because he was reading a popular novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter (1776-1850).