NC Gazetteer

Fair Bluff

Also known as: Wootonton
A town in Columbus County
… town in W Columbus County on a bluff overlooking Lumber River. Authorized to be laid off on the lands of John Wooton at Fair Bluff in 1807 and to be known as Wootonton. The new name apparently was not adopted, as Fair Bluff appears on the Price map, 1808, and on the MacRae map, 1833. Reincorporated in 1873 as Fair Bluff. Alt. 69.