South Washington

… former town in N central Pender County on Washington Creek near its mouth in Northeast Cape Fear River. Laid out about 1740 by Malatiah Hamilton as the center of trade for the Welsh Tract, which see. Inc. 1791 as South Washington. About 1840 moved approx. 1½ mi. SW to a site on the newly completed railroad and came to be called Hiawatha, corrupted into Watha, which see.