New Castle

… community in SE Wilkes County between Osborne and Hunting Creeks. Named for the plantation of James Clemmons Hunt (1804-47), local merchant and planter. The town of Denneysville was authorized to be laid out at the site in 1817 on land then owned by George Denny, but it apparently did not develop. Known as Hunt's Store by 1847 and by its present name by the 1850s.