NC Gazetteer

Shawboro

Also known as: Shaw's Corner, Bayley
A community in Currituck County
… community in W Currituck County. Settled about 1775 and first known as Bayley. Perhaps to avoid confusion with Bailey in Nash County, it was renamed Shaw's Corner after the Civil War in honor of Col. Henry Shaw, Confederate officer. Name later changed to Shawboro by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Alt. 15.