NC Gazetteer

Cherry

Also known as: Sherards Crossroads, Sherard
A community
… community in E Wayne County between Nahunta Swamp and The Slough, settled prior to 1833. Name is a corruption of the former name, Sherard, by which it appears on the MacRae map, 1833, or Sherards Crossroads, as it was known as recently as 1915. Named for a local family that settled in the area in the eighteenth century.